Bob Goff
Some of us have been told what we want our whole lives. We've been told we should want to go out for sports or not. We should want a college education or a graduate degree or a particular career. We should want to date this person and not the other.Collection: Education
The world will figure out what we really believe, by watching what we actually do.Collection: Believe
Embrace uncertainty. Some of the most beautiful chapters in our lives won't have a title until much later.Collection: Beautiful
Stand up like a mountain; have faith like a rock; love like an avalancheCollection: Rocks
Every day God invites us on the same kind of adventure. It's not a trip where He sends us a rigid itinerary, He simply invites us. God asks what it is He's made us to love, what it is that captures our attention, what feeds that deep indescribable need of our souls to experience the richness of the world He made. And then, leaning over us, He whispers, "Let's go do that together.Collection: Adventure
It will be the people with the greatest love, not the most information, who will influence us to change.Collection: People
We won't be distracted by comparison if we're captivated with purpose.Collection: Purpose
Figure out what fuels your joy, then do lots of thatCollection: Joy
Selfless love is always costly; fear can't afford it, pride doesn't understand it and friends never forget it.Collection: Pride
Don't let not knowing how it'll end keep you from beginning. Uncertainty chases us out into the open where God is waiting.Collection: Knowing
No one leads people to Jesus; He leads people to Himself. All the pressure's off; just go love everybody without agenda.Collection: Jesus
God never said He'd eliminate all of the chaos from our lives; He just said He'd bring meaning to it.Collection: Chaos
The way we love people we disagree with is the best evidence of what we really believe.Collection: Believe
I used to be afraid of failing at something that really mattered to me, but now I'm more afraid of succeeding at things that don't matter.Collection: Matter
Courage isn't the absence of fear, it's just deciding that fear isn't calling the shots anymoreCollection: Calling The Shots
Don't save up love like you're trying to retire on it; give it away like you're made of it.Collection: Giving
Being engaged is a way of doing life, a way of living and loving. It's about going to extremes and expressing the bright hope that life offers us, a hope that makes us brave and expels darkness with light. That's what I want my life to be all about - full of abandon, whimsy, and in love.Collection: Light
We can't always see people's pain; they can always feel our love.Collection: Pain
Most people need love and acceptance a lot more than they need advice.Collection: Motivational
No book is a chapter, no chapter tells the whole story, no mistake defines who we are. Hope makes our lives page turners.Collection: Mistake
Courage doesn't mean we're not afraid anymore, it just means our actions aren't controlled by our doubts.Collection: Mean
The way we deal with uncertainty says a lot about whether Jesus is ahead of us leading, or behind us just carrying our stuff.Collection: Jesus
I used to think I could shape the circumstances around me, but now I know Jesus uses circumstances to shape me.Collection: Jesus
Instead of closing our eyes and bowing our heads, sometimes God wants us to keep our eyes open for people in need, do something about it, and bow our whole lives to Him instead.Collection: Eye
Our opinions are what we'll be known for; our love is what we'll be remembered forCollection: Love Is
Love God. Love people. And do stuff. That's my punch list everyday.Collection: People
God isn't trying to make our lives easier; He wants to make them more meaningful.Collection: Meaningful
Stop telling people how far they have left to go. Instead tell them how far they’ve come.Collection: People
See people for who they're becoming. Not who they were.Collection: People
We can be the light of the world without leaving our high beams on and annoying everybody.Collection: Light
God finds us in the holes we dig for ourselves. We see failures; He sees foundations.Collection: Foundation
I don't know every step I'm supposed to take. I think Jesus just wants me to take the next step.Collection: Jesus
If we only do what we're familiar with, we might miss what we've been made for.Collection: Missing
Stop doing what you're able to do and figure out what you were made to do - then do lots of that.Collection: Able
There's a lot to be concerned about; there's more to be hopeful for.Collection: Hopeful
I used to think that real love involved falling for someone; but now I think it usually involves standing for someone.Collection: Real
We won't be like Jesus if it's more important to us to be like each other. God doesn't compare what he creates.Collection: Jesus
Most of our decisions are driven by either love or fear. Figure out who's doing the talking, then decide what you'll do.Collection: Talking
Fix your eyes on Jesus; it's ok to stare.Collection: Jesus
Grace means we can put the chalk away and stop keeping score!Collection: Mean
Loving people the way Jesus did, means living a life of constant interruptions. Bring it.Collection: Jesus
Love one another. We don't need more instructions; we need more examples.Collection: Example
What distracts us will begin to define us. We don't need to swing at every pitch.Collection: Swings
People who want to manipulate you will fear your joy, because it's not easily controlled.Collection: People
Love like there's no tomorrow; live like there's no yesterday. We're forgiven; now go love people like we believe itCollection: Believe
I once heard somebody say that God had closed a door on an opportunity they had hoped for. But I've always wondered if when we want to do something that we know is right and good, God places that desire deep in our hearts because He wants it for us and it honors Him. Maybe there are times when we think a door has been closed and, instead of misinterpreting the circumstances, God wants us to kick it down. Or perhaps just sit outside of it long enough until somebody tells us we can come in.Collection: Heart
God pursues us into whatever dark place we've landed and behind whatever locked door holds us in. He holds our unwashed and dirty hands and models how He wants us to pursue each other And He says to ordinary people like me and you that instead of closing our eyes and bowing our heads, sometimes God wants us to keep our eyes open for people in need, do something about it, and bow our whole lives to Him instead.Collection: Dirty
Failure is just part of the process, and it's not just okay; it's better than okay. God doesn't want failure to shut us down. God didn't make it a three-strikes-and-you're-out sort of thing. It's more about how God helps us dust ourselves off so we can swing for the fences again. And all of this without keeping a meticulous record of our screw-ups.Collection: Swings
It has always seemed to me that broken things, just like broken people, get used more; it's probably because God has more pieces to work with.Collection: God