Something is profoundly wrong and we are desperate for justice, for restoration and for somebody somewhere to do something about this. — Rob Bell Desperate Copy Share Image
Freedom is not having everything we crave, it's being able to go without the things we crave and being OK with it. — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Many of the most significant moments in our lives come not because it all went right but because it all fell apart — Rob Bell Moments Copy Share Image
It's absolutely crucial that we come face to face with the power of our choices. — Rob Bell Choice Copy Share Image
For a lot of people in our world today, God has become about believing the right stuff so you don't get in… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
If there's any place where you would express your deepest doubts, it would be church. — Rob Bell Church Copy Share Image
opening up your soul to someone, letting them into your spirit, thoughts, fears, future, hopes, dreams ... that is being naked. — Rob Bell Dream Copy Share Image
To me some of the greatest writing is when somebody puts something in words that you felt and experienced and you go,… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
“And if you keep telling people who they are, who their best selves are, if you keep reminding them of their true… — Rob Bell Identity Copy Share Image
There's way too much wonder and mystery all around us to not stay open to more that's going on here. You can… — Rob Bell Breath Copy Share Image
It takes quite a spine to turn the other cheek. It takes phenomenal fortitude to love your enemy. It takes firm resolve… — Rob Bell Enemy Copy Share Image
That may sound a big vague, but what has struck me in city after city is that despite our differences and diversity,… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
I believe God gives people the right to say no, to resist, to refuse, to reject, to cling to their sins, to… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
“One of the great “theologians” of our time, Sean Penn, put it this way: “When everything gets answered, it’s fake. The mystery… — Rob Bell Time Copy Share Image
God gives us what we want. For people who want nothing to do with peace, joy, reconciliation and peace... God will give… — Rob Bell Choices Copy Share Image
The Christian faith is mysterious to the core. It is about things and beings that ultimately can't be put into words. Language… — Rob Bell Christian Copy Share Image
Missions then is less about the transportation of God from one place to another and more about the identification of a God… — Rob Bell Creative Copy Share Image
“As we experience this love, there is a temptation at times to become hostile to our earlier understandings, feeling embarrassed that we… — Rob Bell God Copy Share Image
“First, the Bible has to be interpreted. When someone says they’re just doing what the Bible says to do, they didn’t greet… — Rob Bell Bible Copy Share Image
It's absurd and quite tragic the way people have managed to pit science against faith. They aren't in conflict at all -… — Rob Bell Absurd Copy Share Image
“Why didn’t they just skip the whole sacrificial system all together? That would have been amazing. Just scrap the whole thing. Announce… — Rob Bell Getting ahead Copy Share Image
Some communities don't permit open, honest inquiry about the things that matter most. Lots of people have voiced a concern, expressed a… — Rob Bell Abraham Copy Share Image
Love is what God is, love is why Jesus came, and love is why he continues to come, year after year to… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Hope. People want hope. We crave hope. We long for hope. Hope has been present since the very beginning. And almost in… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
My parents were both very intellectually honest, straightforward, and for them, faith meant that you were fully engaged. — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Every generation has to ask difficult questions about what does it mean to follow Jesus. — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
It is such a letdown to rise from the dead and have your friends not recognize you. — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
I am for love, whether it's a man and a woman, a woman and a woman, a man and a man. — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
It often takes suffering and lost in order to remind us of how precious life is. — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
When someone sets out to be controversial or provocative or shocking as an end in itself, I don't think that's a noble… — Rob Bell Controversial Copy Share Image
My experience is that lots of people go to church, sing the songs, tell the story, etc but have profound ambivalence about… — Rob Bell Ambivalence Copy Share Image
Before anything else, you have received breath - the gift of life itself. The first word about you is GIFT. — Rob Bell Breath Copy Share Image
Why blame the dark for being dark? It is far more helpful to ask why the light isn’t as bright as it… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Many in the modern world fell for the myth that we're living in a static, fixed, flat reality of just material things. — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
On the Sabbath- we are reminded that we are not human doings, but human beings. — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
My interest is in what's true, where is the life, where is the heart and what inspires. — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
I like to say that I practice militant mysticism. I'm really absolutely sure of some things that I don't quite know. — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
The moment God is figured out with nice neat lines and definitions, we are no longer dealing with God. — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Your life is a gift and how you respond to it - what you do with it matters. That's where I start. — Rob Bell Gift Copy Share Image
A good sermon is going to disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed. It inspires you. It provokes you. It should make… — Rob Bell Comfort Copy Share Image