This is why for thousands of years Christians have found the cross to be so central to life. It speaks to us… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
“Confession is like really, really healthy vomit. It may smell and get all over the front of your shirt, but you feel… — Rob Bell Confession Copy Share Image
“People wrote these stories down because they found in them something that helped restore their dignity; the stories gave them a sense… — Rob Bell Respect Copy Share Image
It's as if Thomas Kinkade and Dante were at a party, and one turned to the other sometime after midnight and uttered… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
I embrace the term 'evangelical,' if by that we mean a belief that we together can actually work for change in the… — Rob Bell Beautiful Copy Share Image
For many, 'desire' is a bad word, something we're supposed to 'give up for God.' That kind of thinking can be really… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
We can choose the way of compassion, the way of forgiveness, the way of generosity. Or we can choose other paths and… — Rob Bell Compassion Copy Share Image
Your life is a gift. Before anything else can be said about you, for some reason the universe (or God, or being,… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
“Jesus didn’t talk about a God who wants to burn this place down and take us somewhere else; he talked about the… — Rob Bell Bible Copy Share Image
“I don’t read the Bible like a flat line. I don’t see all of the passages in the Bible sitting equally side… — Rob Bell Bible Copy Share Image
“If the gospel isn't good news for everybody, then it isn't good news for anybody. And this is because the most powerful… — Rob Bell Acts of service Copy Share Image
“And to that, that impulse, craving, yearning, longing, desire— God says yes. Yes, there is water for that thirst, food for that… — Rob Bell Desire Copy Share Image
“This is one of the reasons we watch movies, attend recovery groups, read memoirs, and sit around campfires telling stories long after… — Rob Bell Common humanity Copy Share Image
To make it really clear and simple, let's call this movement across history we see in passages like the ones we just… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
“As obvious as it is, then, Jesus is bigger than any one religion. He didn't come to start a new religion, and… — Rob Bell Christianity Copy Share Image
The modern world has created airports and hospitals and put 10,000 songs in our pocket. It has built gleaming buildings and computers… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
“When people argue for the existence of a supernatural God who is somewhere else and reaches in on occasion to do a… — Rob Bell God Copy Share Image
“Because when you can’t hear the cry, when you stop caring for the widow, the orphan, and the refugee among you, it… — Rob Bell Refugee Copy Share Image
“Second, Jesus consistently affirmed heaven as a real place, space, and dimension of God’s creation, where God’s will and only God’s will… — Rob Bell Heaven Copy Share Image
The world is desperately in need of people who will break themselves open and pour themselves out for the reconciliation of all… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
I'm interested in painting the most beautifully compelling pictures and images and metaphors and stories and explanations possible that will put Jesus… — Rob Bell Artist Copy Share Image
I got into pastoring because of the art form. I started a church, but I felt the art form needed to be… — Rob Bell Alive Copy Share Image
“The point of the Abraham-and-Isaac story isn’t that you should sacrifice your kid but that you can leave behind any notion of… — Rob Bell Abraham Copy Share Image
The danger is that in reaction to abuses and distortions of an idea, we'll reject it completely. And in the process miss… — Rob Bell Abuse Copy Share Image
Agape doesn't love somebody because they're worthy. Agape makes them worthy by the strength and power of its love. Agape doesn't love… — Rob Bell Agape Copy Share Image
“You just took a breath. You're about to take another. Inhale, then exhale, then another inhale. In and out. There's a rhythm… — Rob Bell Breath Copy Share Image
My experience as a pastor is lots of people have really toxic, dangerous, psychologically devastating images of God in their head, images… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
“God doesn’t wait for us to get ourselves polished, shined, proper, and without blemish—God comes to us and meets us and blesses… — Rob Bell God Copy Share Image
To be honest with you, I am passionate about all the people out there who want to know Jesus, they want to… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
“This God disrupts the familiarity of the story by interrupting the sacrifice. Picture an early audience gasping. What? This God stopped the… — Rob Bell God Copy Share Image
You can be very religious and invoke the name of God and be able to quote lots of verses and be well… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
“How we eat is connected to how we care for the planet which is connected to how we use our resources which… — Rob Bell Every night Copy Share Image
When the lab rats hear the bell ringing, they freeze. That's what fear does to you - fear stops you dead in… — Rob Bell Bells Copy Share Image
“The Psalms show us what healthy spiritual life looks like. You name everything that's happening inside of you. You give it language… — Rob Bell Depression Copy Share Image
Our tendency in the midst of suffering is to turn on God. To get angry and bitter and shake our fist at… — Rob Bell Accusation Copy Share Image
“The violence isn’t that surprising; what’s surprising is that among all that violence are new ideas about serving and blessing and nonviolence.… — Rob Bell Books Copy Share Image
It is trusting that I am loved. That I always have been. That I always will be. I don't have to do… — Rob Bell Acceptance Copy Share Image
“This is because conviction and humility, like faith and doubt, are not opposites; they’re dance partners. It’s possible to hold your faith… — Rob Bell Dance partner Copy Share Image
The ancient Hebrews had a word for this awareness of the importance of things. They called it kavod. Kavod originally was a… — Rob Bell Ancient Copy Share Image
“Which leads to another question: When Matthew tells us that some of Jesus’s followers doubted, does this undermine the story, or is… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
