Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World

by Bob Goff

Something happens when you feel ownership. You no longer act like a spectator or consumer, because you’re an owner. Faith is at its best when it’s that way too. It’s best lived when it’s owned.

passing on the chance to cross over is an overall attitude toward life rather than a single decision.

God can use anyone, for sure. If you can shred on a Fender or won “Best Personality,” you’re not disqualified—it just doesn’t make you more qualified.

being “engaged” isn’t just an event that happens when a guy gets on one knee and puts a ring on his true love’s finger. Being engaged is a way of doing life, a way of living and loving. It’s about going to extremes and expressing the bright hope that life offers us, a hope that makes us brave and expels darkness with light. That’s what I want my life to be all about—full of abandon, whimsy, and in love. I want to be engaged to life and with life.

Things that go wrong can shape us or scar us.

I used to be afraid of failing at the things that really mattered to me, but now I’m more afraid of succeeding at things that don’t matter.