Live in Grace, Walk in Love: A 365-Day Journey

by Bob Goff

When our insecurity wants us to keep track of our failures, remember grace isn’t keeping score. It doesn’t even start counting.

God gives you just as much grace as you need.

think about how God has forgiven us for everything we’ve done (even the things we’ve managed to hide from other people), our hearts will begin to take the shape of forgiveness. Do this long enough and we’ll turn into the kind of people who naturally extend it to others because we’ve felt its transforming power.

The next time you’re asking God to make you whole, remember that there isn’t a straight line to the summit. There will be plenty of switchbacks and hard work.

When I think someone ought to be more loving, it’s usually me.

We come into contact with people every day who need to encounter love. They need to know that whatever they’re going through at the moment, they don’t have to go it alone.

Instead of convincing people we’re right, let’s be humble. Humble people know when to speak up and when to be silent. People listen to our lives even more than our words, and it will be love that moves them in the end.

the world will know what we believe by seeing what we do. Be love, and you can’t go wrong.

Instead of telling stories to brighten your spotlight or hold on to power, simply talk about what you’ve experienced Jesus doing in your life. We don’t have to have the answers or look like we have big faith. We just have to be humble and tell it like we’ve known it.

He gives us grace in return. There’s nothing we’ve messed up that He hasn’t been able to turn into something redemptive and beautiful. There’s no sin we’ve committed that’s stopped Him from giving us grace.

Tremendous love makes big grace look effortless. When our lives revolve around loving people, grace becomes a natural outpouring.

Every time we forgive each other, we create a little more

space for love, and it’s this new space that has the power to change us.

Where great joy is a habit, extravagant love is a reflex.

we weren’t created to find our worth by comparing ourselves to other people,

being the first to sign up to be last.

The right thing with the wrong motive is the wrong thing.

Sometimes in order to obey God you need to disobey Pharaoh.

love calls us to be more concerned about the vulnerable than other people’s opinions about us. Love cares more about who’s hurting than who’s watching.

no one can take from us what we’re willing to freely give.

hold our possessions loosely because people are always more important—even

The love we’ve been given is too big and too beautiful to be held back by our inhibitions or our old ways.

Instead of trying to stop a few bad behaviors, Jesus is more interested in our transformation—in helping us become more like Him.

Their faith is the air they breathe to make it through the day.

We’re bound together by love, not a bunch of opinions. Don’t waste your time trying to convince people to agree with you. Band together in spreading love instead, and you’ll find that the arguments that can tear us apart don’t matter that much anymore.

We use our energy trying to win the approval of people who still don’t know what it’s like to be unconditionally loved and won’t remember us. We spend most of our waking hours trying to make life safe, predictable, and comfortable, yet what we really want is adventure. We strive and chase and spin our wheels for things that won’t last. Love is the only thing that will last. Instead of using our time and energy to gain more attention, control our world, or get more stuff, let’s spend it all on love.

as far as it depends on you, live at peace with all people.

We need to know what we want and why we want it.

I want to be remembered for what I did outside the lines rather than the stuff I filled in between.

WE CAN’T CHANGE MUCH IF WE WON’T RISK MUCH.

There’s no fast-forward to change.