Quotes by Bob Goff

About Bob Goff:

Bob Goff is the author of the New York Times Best-Selling book Love Does. Bob also provides senior leadership at Goff & Dewalt, LLP as the founding partner. The U.S. Department of State recognizes Mr. Goff as a diplomat and he is known as an Honorary Consul for the Republic of Uganda due to his work with Restore International, a non-profit organization he founded.
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Thinking about work as a day job has made a big difference in the way I approach what I do. It also helped me not to confuse who I am with what I do.

Bob Goff

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 c...

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Jesus lets us be real with our life and our faith.

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...we need to stop plotting the course and instead just land the plane on our plans to make a difference by getting to the "do" part of faith.

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Grace works that way. It's a kind word from a gentle person with an impossible prayer. It's a force sometimes transmitted best hand to hand in a dark place.

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Pick something you aren't just able to do; instead, pick something you feel like you were made to do and then do lots of that. You weren't just an incredible idea that God never got around to making. The next step happened for the world when God drop...

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I learned that faith isn’t about knowing all of the right stuff or obeying a list of rules. It’s something more, something more costly because it being present and making a sacrifice. Perhaps that’s why Jesus is sometimes called Immanuel - “G...

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I don't think anyone aims to be typical, really. Most people even vow to themselves some time in high school or college not to be typical. But still, they just kind of loop back to it somehow. Like the circular rails of a train at an amusement park, ...

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That's one of those things about love. It always assumes it can find a way to express itself.

Bob Goff

When you trust someone, you don't need to know everything.

Bob Goff

But the kind of love that God created and demonstrated is a costly one because it involves sacrifice and presence. It's a love that operates more like a sign language than being spoken outright.

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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 ne...

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  • NameBob Goff
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  • CountryUnited States Of America