The moment God is figured out with nice neat lines and definitions, we are no longer dealing with God. — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Sociologically, large groups of people don't generally have massive changes in their belief instantaneously. — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
“when people debate faith vs. science they’ve already missed the point. Faith is about embracing truth wherever it’s found, and that of… — 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 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 Copy Share Image
If your faith is threatened by something that's true, then it wasn't much of a faith to begin with, was it? — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
And a lot of times, the religious discussion is almost a masquerade for the real question, is what stories that we tell… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Questions are not scary. What is scary is when people don’t have any. What is tragic is faith that has no room… — 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
“But in reading all of the passages in which Jesus uses the word "hell," what is so striking is that people believing… — Rob Bell 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 Copy Share Image
“The priest's work, the priest's service, was understoon as an act of worship. Theis was God"s desire at Sinai - thst everybody… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Take faith, for example. For many people in our world, the opposite of faith is doubt. The goal, then, within this understanding,… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
“Central to this conquest of the world was the belief that military victory is peace. There was even one line from the… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Everybody is following somebody. Everybody has faith in something and somebody. We are all believers. — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Well, I affirm orthodox Christian faith. I affirm the Nicene Creed. I don't think I'm doing anything terribly new. — Rob Bell 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 Copy Share Image
If this understanding of the good news of Jesus prevailed among Christians, the belief that Jesus’s message is about how to get… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
If the gospel isn't good news for everybody, then it isn't good news for anybody. — Rob Bell 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 could be. — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
“This story... blasts to pieces our biases and labels with a declaration that God is on everyone's side, extending grace and compassion to everyone,… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
One truth is that suffering raises profound questions with the universe. The other truth is that grace, gift and generosity also raise profound questions. — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
For Jesus, heaven and hell were present realities. Ways of living we can enter into here and now. He talked very little of the… — Rob Bell 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 person after… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
I believe that God is love. I believe that Jesus came to show us this love, to give us this love, to teach us… — Rob Bell 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 things happen… — Rob Bell 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 by side… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
To elevate abstract doctrines and dogmas over living, breathing, embodied experiences of God's love and grace, then, is going the wrong direction. It's taking… — Rob Bell 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 and advances… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
