Bob Goff Quotes

Sometimes God writes straightforward in twisted lines.

It's funny how God will change your plans for you when he's ready.

The way and manner God executes His plan in our lives differs

This is what the past is for! Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for the future that only He can see.

There is a grand designer behind everything. God's plan for your life, all that happens to you, including your mistakes, your sins, and your hurts.

It's good to have plans and dreams, but don't be surprised if God brings you somewhere else.

I feel like God puts things in our lives to help prepare us for the future.

God allows circumstances to build us up. God has got our back.

God decided when we would be born and when we would be born again. We have the Spirit and the Gospel. To think that we deserve to live in different times is to tell God that we deserve a better mission field than the one He has given us.

When you align yourself with God's purpose as described in the Scriptures, something special happens to your life.

We look at life from the back side of the tapestry. And most of the time, what we see is loose threads, tangled knots and the like. But occasionally, God's light shines through the tapestry, and we get a glimpse of the larger design with God weaving together the darks and lights of existence.

God has his plans and his reasons. Sometimes we are supposed to go through things so that we learn lessons.

I'm a great believer that the Lord provides us specific experiences to prepare us to deal with some of the challenges that we're going to encounter in our own period of service.

I'm a woman of faith. And I really believe that if I say, 'God, this is what I want,' He says, 'I'll give you your desires, as long as they line up with My will.'

I have begun to realize just how amazing God's plan can be.

God does things on his time. He wanted me to sit down and wanted me to get some other aspects of my life back in order.

Life events will not define who you are. God says who you are.

I really believe that God has a purpose for everything that I do.

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

... God uses such seemingly insignificant ways to prepare us for the plan He has for our lives.

When you follow God's will for your life, you can see how yesterday's events prepared you for today's challenges and tomorrow's opportunities.

We can each rest in the knowledge that God is sovereign over our life's situation. No matter where we are today or what mistakes we've made in the past, He has given us everything we need to glorify Him right now.

The moral government of God is a movement in a line onwards towards some grand consummation, in which the principles, indeed, are ever the same, but the developments are always new - in which, therefore, no experience of the past can indicate with certainty what new openings of truth, what hew manifestations of goodness, what new phases of the moral heaven may appear.

However benevolent may be the intentions of Providence, they do not always advance the happiness of the individual. Providence has always higher ends in view, and works in a pre-eminent degree on the inner feelings and disposition.