Bob Goff Quotes

How could you have had such a wonderful life as me if there wasn't a God directing?

I'm here today because God has brought me here. Jesus has brought me here...I'm with an amazing team. I believe He perfectly placed me in the right spot at the right time.

I think often that God is guiding me.

God has a plan for all of us, but He expects us to do our share of the work.

God has a plan for every individual. We must only strive to achieve what we have to. He takes care of the rest.

I think God isn't interested in intervening every time some little bad thing happens. God is interested in getting the message of good news and love and comfort and hope across through people like us, ordinary people, or extraordinary people like Bono.

I totally give credit to God for all of this stuff, because if I had tried to make these things happen, I couldn't have. To have all these things happen has been absolutely amazing. The road that I'm on is a path that I didn't choose. It chose me. I'm just trying to walk it, and to do the best that I can to honor and respect it.

God works through people. It’s not me.

We often can't see what God is doing in our lives, but God sees the whole picture and His plan for us clearly.

God always answers prayer, sometimes with a yes, sometimes with a no and sometimes with a 'You've got to be kidding!'

There are two powers that alone can effect in their conjunction the great and dificult thing which is the aim of our endeavour, a fixed and unfailing aspiration that calls from below and a supreme Grace from above that answers.

Gods don't answer letters.

I like to take every day just searching my own heart, making sure that I'm on course, and I'm doing what God wants me to do. I'm real good with not looking to the critics and looking straight ahead.

I was hoping to get to the NBA, but the Lord took me on a different path.

I don't save people. God saves people. I can point them in the right direction. I can say, 'There's that door. I think if you walked through it, you'd be happier than you are.'

We depend a lot on the guy upstairs in dire times, in addressing our concerns and looking for help.

I do know this: God does answer your prayers, but it's not always in the way you expect. God knows what's best for us, though, so there's no need to worry when things don't go how we originally wanted them to go.

I have to trust something that gives me power; I have to believe in something, but in my career I have a lot of moments I cannot explain with God.

It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts.

Sometimes God answers our questions with questions.

I think God has chosen to use this as a tool.

I do believe that God has his hands on me and that he has work for me to do.

Everything starts with God in my career, and it will finish with God.

Bottom line: God will not allow any person to keep you from your destiny. They may be bigger, stronger, or more powerful, but God knows how to shift things around and get you to where you're supposed to be.

Providence was well aware what lay ahead for me, and my Capuchin training was to prepare me for it.