Everybody, Always: Becoming Love in a World Full of Setbacks and Difficult People

by Bob Goff

Jesus talked to His friends a lot about how we should identify ourselves. He said it wouldn’t be what we said we believed or all the good we hoped to do someday. Nope, He said we would identify ourselves simply by how we loved people. It’s tempting to think there is more to it, but there’s not. Love isn’t something we fall into; love is someone we become.

There’s a difference between good judgment and living in judgment. The trick is to use lots of the first and to go a little lighter on the second.

Burning down others’ opinions doesn’t make us right. It makes us arsonists.

Only Jesus has the power to change people, and it will be harder for them to see Jesus if their view of Him is blocked by our big opinions.

When joy is a habit, love is a reflex.

Selfless love has the power to transform even the darkest places into meadows.

Find what the people you love want to do and then go be with them in it.

The promise of love and grace in our lives is this: Our worst day isn’t bad enough, and our best day isn’t good enough. We’re invited because we’re loved, not because we earned it.

Everyone hits a couple of wrong notes; keep playing your song.

when we’re busy getting our validation from the people around us, we stop looking for it from God.

But if we make everything about us, it’ll never be about Jesus.

People don’t grow where they’re planted; they grow where they’re loved.

There is no love without justice, but there is no justice without love.