Bob Goff Quotes

There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.

The more we can be in a relationship with those who might seem strange to us, the more we can feel like we're neighbors and all members of the human family.

I needed our fans to know they're loved and accepted, and fear isn't the way to go.

He drew a circle that shut me out- Heretic , rebel, a thing to flout. But love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle and took him In ! From the poem " Outwitted

I think that is something that I always like in my work - the sense of inclusion rather than the sense of otherness.

Dear sisters and brothers, I am not against anyone.

Whether a person is straight or gay, Republican, Democrat, good person, not a good person, they're all welcome, because to me, church is a place you're supposed to get healed and whole and loved.

In God's family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.

You see people who are disenfranchised elsewhere coming to Comic Con and making lifetime friends. I love seeing the outcasts of society all bonding together.

I'm not looking to exclude people, I'm looking to include them.

God calls all of his children to the table. We can disagree and even say a lot of hateful things, but what we can't do in good conscience is leave the table. Or demand that someone else not be at the table.

I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.

We felt like we just got surrounded by this community of friends.

My idea of religion is we are supposed to bring people together. We are not supposed to judge other people.

Instead of focusing on, 'Oh, there's a black lady who plays videogames,' focus on that there's another person out there who loves the same stuff that you do.

I would like that no citizen of the state feels alone and helpless. The entire nation is with them.

I think Jesus was about bringing people together and connecting people in love, hanging out with the people who other people didn't want to hang out with. Spending time with the worst of the worst because He knew those are the people who needed Him most.

The black community is my community - the LGBT community, too, and the female community. That is my community. That's me; it's who I am.

I think that is important, to not make people feel alien.

We're not called to be a tolerant nation. We're called to be a nation of love.

I just always wanted to be part of something where I felt like I belonged.

The best way I could describe it at Notre Dame was that I was accepted as a member of the family.

Any team member, any community member wants and needs to know they count, that they're welcome, and that they're important.

When people come to my gigs, they feel accepted as they are and they feel part of this family.

Japan took me in as one of their own and treated me like one of their own.