Quotes from Bob Goff

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Don't let not knowing how it'll end keep you from beginning. Uncertainty chases us out into the open where God is waiting.

God never said He'd eliminate all of the chaos from our lives; He just said He'd bring meaning to it.

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.

God doesn't break things so He can fix them; He fixes broken things so He can use them.

We keep asking for answers; God keeps sending us people.

God finds us in the holes we dig for ourselves. We see failures; He sees foundations.