When it feels like we need to choose between being right and being humble- pick both
Bob GoffRead
Love God, love your neighbors, and do stuff!
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote emphasizes the importance of loving God and others through action.
Bob Goff's quote encapsulates the essence of love by suggesting that it should be both a feeling and an action. Loving God and our neighbors is not just about having positive feelings towards them; it also involves tangible actions that demonstrate that love in everyday life. By urging us to 'do stuff,' Goff highlights that love should be expressed through our deeds, reflecting an active commitment to caring for others.
Themes
LoveActionServiceNeighborsGod
In practice
Example use cases
During a church gathering, one could use this quote to inspire members to engage in community service.
More from Bob Goff
All quotes βI used to think God guided us by opening and closing doors, but now I know sometimes God wants us to kick some doors down.
Bob GoffRead
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.
Bob GoffRead
Whimsy doesn't care if you are the driver or the passenger; all that matters is that you are on your way.
Bob GoffRead
Courage doesn't mean we're not afraid anymore, it just means our actions aren't controlled by our doubts.
Bob GoffRead
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.
Bob GoffRead
Similar quotes
But love me for love's sake, that evermore_x000D_ _x000D_ Thou may'st love on, through love's eternity.
Elizabeth Barrett BrowningRead
What is this terror? what is this ecstasy? he thought to himself. What is it that fills me with this extraordinary excitement? It is Clarissa, he said. For there she was.
Virginia WoolfRead
mother says that two souls are sometimes created together and--and in love before they're born.
F. Scott FitzgeraldRead
To love anyone is to hope in him for always. From the moment at which we begin to judge anyone, to limit our confidence in him, from the moment at which we identify him with what we know of him and so reduce him to that, we cease to love him and he ceases to be able to be better.
Charles De FoucauldRead
Love is a place & through this place of love move (with brightness of peace) all places yes is a world & in this world of yes live (skillfully curled) all worlds
E. E. CummingsRead
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
Jose Ortega Y GassetRead