Bob Goff Quotes

I just hope people see that if God can do something beautiful with my broken pieces, then God truly has a plan for each and everyone of us.

Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue.

I know for certain that God does not make mistakes, but he does make miracles. I am one. You are, too.

You don't know what God can do with your broken pieces until you give God your broken pieces.

We are not called to bring a broken planet back to its created glory. But we are to call broken people back to their creator.

God is a specialist at making something useful and beautiful out of something broken and confused.

We live in a broken world - and for the life of me I can't get it all right. But Jesus takes all our broken messes and He makes them, by His grace, into a mosaic of grace.

Every test, every trial, every heartache that's been significant, I can turn it over and see how God has turned it into good no matter what.

I believe God will make a way.

The Christian faith can never be separated from the soil of sacred events, from the choice made by God, who wanted to speak to us, to become man, to die and rise again, in a particular place and at a particular time.

I'm trying to throw a big broad net to try to get people interested in God and believe that He's for them and has a purpose.

I believe if God doesn't give you a miracle, you are a miracle of God for somebody else's salvation.

God will use whatever he wants to display his glory. Heavens and stars. History and nations. People and problems.

Oh, come, Divine Physician, and bind up every broken bone. Come with Thy sacred nard which Thou hast compounded of Thine own heart's blood, and lay it home to the wounded conscience and let it feel its power. Oh! Give peace to those whose conscience is like the troubled sea which cannot rest.

Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23, I was broken in my soul. I didn't know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life, and I came out on the other side and didn't even smell like smoke.

Christianity affirms that at the heart of reality is a Heart, a loving Father who works through history for the salvation of His children. Man cannot save himself, for man is not the measure of all things and humanity is not God. Bound by the chains of his own sin and finiteness, man needs a Savior.

You have no idea the numbers of people that God may want to influence through you

If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.

God's purpose in redemption is to make worshipers out of rebels.

It has always seemed to me that broken things, just like broken people, get used more; it's probably because God has more pieces to work with.

The purpose of God isn't to save us from Hell. The purpose of God is to make us like Christ.

Christians can trust God to redeem even the greatest of tragedies and the most desperate of situations.

Our task as image-bearing, God-loving, Christ-shaped, Spirit-filled Christians, following Christ and shaping our world, is to announce redemption to a world that has discovered its fallenness, to announce healing to a world that has discovered its brokenness, to proclaim love and trust to a world that knows only exploitation, fear and suspicion.

I have become convinced that God thoroughly enjoys fixing and saving things that are broken. That means that no matter how hurt and defeated you feel, no matter how badly you have been damaged, God can repair you. God can give anyone a second chance.

God loves to bring good out of bad. He loves to turn crucifixions into resurrections. Every obstacle is an opportunity. Every problem has potential. Every crisis is an opportunity for ministry. Every hurt God wants to use for His glory.