Bob Goff

When the kids were growing up, we didn't have a television in the house connected to a cable or an antenna. If something bad happened in the world, I wanted the kids to hear about it from me. ”

Some of us have been told what we want our whole lives. We've been told we should want to go out for sports or not. We should want a college education or a graduate degree or a particular career. We should want to date this person and not the other. ”

God makes confetti out of our titles and accomplishments to celebrate the poor and the humble. ”

I have the sense that whoever here on earth we couldn't get along with, Jesus will make us roommates in Heaven. ”

On the morning of September 11, 2001, I rushed home before the kids left for school and gathered them around our dining room table and told them what had happened. Like everyone else, we struggled for words to describe to our kids why such a thing would occur. ”

I'm not trying to be efficient; I'm trying to be present. ”

I live in constant anticipation of good stuff. It's not being 'Pollyanna' about things, but most stories don't have the ending we would give them right away. The better endings come later. ”

We'll become in our lives whoever the people we love the most say we are. ”

Love is never stationary. ”

Secretly incredible people keep what they do as one of God's best-kept secrets because the only one who needs to know - the God of the universe - already knows. ”