Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World

By Bob Goff

Book Overview

The runaway NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Can a simple concept shift your entire world? Bob certainly thinks so. When it comes to loving your neighbors, rather than focusing on having the "right answers" or checking the "right boxes," what if you decide to simply DO love? To shamelessly show love and grace to those around you? What would that look like?

It might look like spending sixteen days in the Pacific Ocean with five guys and a crate of canned meat. It might look like taking your kids on a world tour to eat ice cream with heads of state. It might look like taking a road trip with a stressed-out college student--even though you just got married a few days before.

In Love Does, Bob shows you:

how to live a fully engaged lifehow to stop putting things off until "next time" and instead find your place of imagination, whimsy, and wonder todaythat God usually chooses ordinary people to get things done

When love does, life gets interesting. Light and fun, unique and profound, the lessons drawn from Bob's life and attitude in this collection of stories just might inspire you to be secretly incredible, too. If you love Love Does, don't forget to check out Everybody, Always and Dream Big for more of Bob's delightful and inspiring stories

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1400203759
• ISBN13: 9781400203758
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Thomas Nelson
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Became one of my favorites

This book is wonderfully playful and inspiring at the same time. It gives permission to dream and be whimsical, while instating that sometimes that's how you make the most impact on other people and the world through God's will. I read this for the first time in 2026. For me, it was an important read. While rage bating and cruelty run wildly in the media, this book gives me faith in humanity. It also made me feel a call to action to live authentically and to 'do', because after all, Love Does. I hope it inspires others the way it has me.

Loved it

used simple text to explain big idea of what love is

A truly delightful portrait of living out Christianity and crazy love.

One of my favorites! An inspiring and exciting read! Couldn’t put it down.

Love This Book 📕!!!!! 😃

Love Does - is such an inspirational and thoughtful book with fabulous humor and quirky ideas that really give the reader permission to dream, to love without reservations and yo change your life for the better without losing sight of your relationship with God. Fantastic!!!

A must read!

The best book I've read in a while.

Excellent!

Wish everyone could read it. Loved it!