Skyler Bailey

“We make loving people a lot more complicated than Jesus did. Every time I try to protect myself by telling somebody about one of my opinions, God whispers to me and asks about my heart. Why are you so afraid? Who are you trying to impress? Am I really so insecure that I surround myself only with people who agree with me? When people are flat wrong, why do I appoint myself the sheriff to straighten them out? Burning down others’ opinions doesn’t make us right. It makes us arsonists.”
― Bob Goff, Everybody, Always: Becoming Love in a World Full of Setbacks and Difficult People

“To see the despair without the grace is suicidal. To see the grace without the despair is upper room futility. But to see them both is conversion.”
― Max Lucado, Six Hours One Friday: Living in the Power of the Cross

“Love isn’t something we fall into; love is someone we become.”
― Bob Goff, Everybody, Always: Becoming Love in a World Full of Setbacks and Difficult People

“I think Jesus meant something different when He said “enemies.” He meant we should love the people we don’t understand. The ones we disagree with. The ones who are flat wrong about more than a couple of things. I have plenty of those people in my life, and my bet is you do too.”
― Bob Goff, Everybody, Always: Becoming Love in a World Full of Setbacks and Difficult People