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Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World QUOTES

Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World QUOTES

1 " 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. "

― Bob Goff , Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World

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

― Bob Goff , Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World

3 " 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, the scripts we know offer a brand of security, of predictability, of safety for us. But the problem is, they only take us where we've already been. They loop us back to places where everyone can easily go, not necessarily where we were made to go. Living a different kind of life takes some guts and grit and a new way of seeing things. "

― Bob Goff , Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World

4 " 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. "

― Bob Goff , Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World

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

― Bob Goff , Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World

6 " 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 - “God with us.” I think that’s what God had in mind, for Jesus to be present, to just be with us. It’s also what He has in mind for us when it comes to other people. "

― Bob Goff , Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World

7 " 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 , Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World

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

― Bob Goff , Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World

9 " 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. "

― Bob Goff , Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World

10 " There is only one invitation it would kill me to refuse, yet I'm tempted to turn it down all the time. I get the invitation every morning when I wake up to actually live a life of complete engagement, a life of whimsy, a life where love does. It doesn't come in an envelope. It's ushered in by a sunrise, the sound of a bird, or the smell of coffee drifting lazily from the kitchen. It's the invitation to actually live, to fully participate in this amazing life for one more day. Nobody turns down an invitation to the White House, but I've seen plenty of people turn down an invitation to fully live.

Turning down this invitation comes in lots of flavors. It looks like numbing yourself or distracting yourself or seeing something really beautiful as normal. It can also look like refusing to forgive or not being grateful or getting wrapped around the axle with fear or envy. I think every day God sends us an invitation to live and sometimes we forget to show up or get head-faked into thinking we haven't really been invited. But you see, we have been invited -- every day, all over again "

― Bob Goff , Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World

11 " Jesus comes looking for us because people, like sheep, have a knack for getting lost. And when He finds us, we usually aren't dressed in a tux. "

― Bob Goff , Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World

12 " I used to think rules were made by someone else, but now I know we get to make some of our own. "

― Bob Goff , Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World

13 " Jesus is asking me and the rest of the people in the world to stop faking it. He wants us to fight the temptation to merely have the right wrapper and instead be exactly who He made us to be and who we are right where we are.

None of us want to make God look bad. But in the end, being fake makes God look worse. It makes people think He tastes like Crisco. "

― Bob Goff , Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World

14 " Could God speak to me audibly if He wanted to? You bet, and I hope He does sometime; I'll let you know. Probably in a book called 'God Talked to Me'. Until then, it seems that what God does most the time when He has something to say is this...He doesn't pass us messages, instead He passes us each other. "

― Bob Goff , Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World

15 " 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. "

― Bob Goff , Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World

16 " I used to want to fix people, but now I just want to be with them. "

― Bob Goff , Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World

17 " Most people need love and acceptance a lot more than they need advice. "

― Bob Goff , Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World

18 " You don't need a plan; you just need to be present. "

― Bob Goff , Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World

19 " I used to think you had to be special for God to use you, but now I know you simply need to say yes. "

― Bob Goff , Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World

20 " ...love is never stationary. "

― Bob Goff , Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World