Bob Goff Quotes

I have learned God doesn't always change those people we want Him to change; instead, He often uses them to change us.

My prayers, my God, flow from what I am not; I think thy answers make me what I am.

God does not further our spiritual life in spite of our circumstances, but in and by our circumstances.

As a believer, I know that Jesus Christ has a plan and it's not going to be my plan. It's not always succeeding and looking back it's amazing looking back to see how God works in mysterious ways, not always good ways, rough ways but those rough times, those rough patches, and those swamps and all those things that I went through are looking back, were such an incredible life lessons for me not only to shape and build me as an athlete but most importantly, my character as a person.

All I have to tell you about is what I have heard and seen of Jesus, how He is helping me find freedom, to occasionally love other people, and even accept myself with all my mixed motives.

In order to see Jesus, we first need to let him look at us!

I cannot now evaluate the events that, at the end of those thirty years, made me discover the necessity of religious belief. I was not reasoned into my disposition. Though I admire the structured thought of theology, it is to religion no more than counterpoint exercises are to music.

In Christ, it's never too late, you're never too old... it's never "too anything" for Him to work positive change in your life.

When we genuinely believe that inner transformation is God's work and not ours, we can put to rest our passion to set others straight.

Here's good news: God is even more committed to your change, your growth, and your transformation than you are.

Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us.

The Lord doesn't put us through this test just to give us a test: He does it because the process will change us.

Faith is not like bottled water but like rain. Its destiny is not just to be kept and held but to make something visible grow.

Prayer is not about changing God, but being willing to let God change us.

Do I believe that God can change bitter circumstances into sweet blessing? Am I willing to let Him?

A Christian is never in a state of completion but always in a process of becoming.

God can take anything that happens to us-even bad things-and use it to shape us and make us into a better, more Christlike person-if we let Him.

The circumstances we ask God to CHANGE are often the circumstances God is using to CHANGE US.

Jesus is knocking at your door. Take hold of the better life by letting him into your life. Make him the boss of your life. It'll change everything.

When you keep God in first place, He will take you to places you've never dreamed of

My notion of spirituality was different than it is now, but even if I'd been the most fundamentalist of believers, I would have assumed that God had better things to do than arbitrarily smite me with shaking palsy.

What is the use of praying if at the very moment of prayer, we have so little confidence in God that we are busy planning our own kind of answer to our prayer?

Each encounter with Jesus changes our life.

Sometimes what we think is a disappointment, is really God getting us in position to go to a new level.

Allow God to be as creative with you as He is with each of us.