Explore Quotes by 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.

Wouldn't you say that most of us are a reflection of or a reaction to the people who have been closest to us? I'm a reflection of my grandmother.

My worst subject in school was school, but it turns out I'm great at starting them.

When the kids were growing up, we didn't have a television in the house connected to a cable or an antenna. If something bad happened in the world, I wanted the kids to hear about it from me.

I'm trying to surround myself during my life with the eight people I'd surround my bed with on my death.

I'm not trying to be efficient; I'm trying to be present.

You know... life can be like a big game of Battleship. The enemy knows where your ships are and is trying to call the right number and sink them. But he can't sink you if you're with God.

I'm a lawyer; I win arguments for a living.

We'll become in our lives whoever the people we love the most say we are.

If a door is shut, go up and wiggle it a little - don't assume it's locked.

Jesus didn't hold people accountable; He just held them close - because it works better.

I live in constant anticipation of good stuff. It's not being 'Pollyanna' about things, but most stories don't have the ending we would give them right away. The better endings come later.

If you wanna get a report card on your faith, see how you are dealing with people who are really difficult to deal with.

On the morning of September 11, 2001, I rushed home before the kids left for school and gathered them around our dining room table and told them what had happened. Like everyone else, we struggled for words to describe to our kids why such a thing would occur.

I have the sense that whoever here on earth we couldn't get along with, Jesus will make us roommates in Heaven.

I literally get one hundred calls a day. I can't get anything done, but I'm happy about it.

Instead of picking your career and backfilling your life behind that, what if you pick your life and backfill your career with whatever is left over?

God makes confetti out of our titles and accomplishments to celebrate the poor and the humble.

The people that are my friends and are easy to get along with, they make me feel like I'm a boss at loving people.

Secretly incredible people keep what they do as one of God's best-kept secrets because the only one who needs to know - the God of the universe - already knows.

What distracts us will begin to define us. We don't need to swing at every pitch.