When it feels like we need to choose between being right and being humble- pick both
Bob GoffRead
Love one another. We don't need more instructions; we need more examples.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Love is best shown through actions rather than words or instructions.
In this quote, Bob Goff emphasizes that the essence of love lies in taking action to support and care for one another. He suggests that instead of merely sharing advice or instructions on how to love, people should focus on demonstrating love through their actions, thereby providing real-life examples that inspire others.
Themes
LoveExamplesActionsSupportCommunity
In practice
Example use cases
During a community meeting to inspire teamwork and compassion.
More from Bob Goff
All quotes βI used to think God guided us by opening and closing doors, but now I know sometimes God wants us to kick some doors down.
Bob GoffRead
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.
Bob GoffRead
Whimsy doesn't care if you are the driver or the passenger; all that matters is that you are on your way.
Bob GoffRead
Courage doesn't mean we're not afraid anymore, it just means our actions aren't controlled by our doubts.
Bob GoffRead
God pursues us into whatever dark place we've landed and behind whatever locked door holds us in. He holds our unwashed and dirty hands and models how He wants us to pursue each other And He says to ordinary people like me and you that instead of closing our eyes and bowing our heads, sometimes God wants us to keep our eyes open for people in need, do something about it, and bow our whole lives to Him instead.
Bob GoffRead
Similar quotes
I never looked at the masses as my responsibility. I can only love one person at a time. So I began. I picked up one person. Maybe if I didn't pick up that one person, I wouldn't have picked up forty-two thousand.
Mother TeresaRead
Take bread away from me, if you wish, take air away, but do not take from me your laughter.
Pablo NerudaRead
I think every human being knows how to hate. Because if they didn't know how to hate how to hate they wouldn't know how to love.
Marilyn MonroeRead
My parents always looked like they loved being together. That's what I took from them, and that's how my wife and I are. I still feel like we're dating.
Billy CrystalRead
I wanted to tell her that she was the first beautiful thing I had seen in three years. That the sight of her yawning to the back of her hand was enough to drive the breath from me. How I sometimes lost the sense of her words in the sweet fluting of her voice. I wanted to say that if she were with me then somehow nothing could ever be wrong for me again.
Patrick RothfussRead
Our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.
Jonathan Safran FoerRead