The life that you want begins the moment you embrace the life you have because all of it is a miracle. — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
You're here, you're breathing, you are the recipient of an extraordinary act of generosity called life. — 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
My interest is in what's true, where is the life, where is the heart and what inspires. — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Before anything else, you have received breath - the gift of life itself. The first word about you is GIFT. — 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… — 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.… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
“But this lawyer, he can’t even answer Jesus’s question by saying the name. He simply replies the one . . . That’s… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
“That’s why the Bible is not a book about going to heaven. The action is here. The life is here. The point… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
“The priest's work, the priest's service, was understood as an act of worship. This was God's desire at Sinai - that everybody… — Rob Bell 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 Copy Share Image
“No one has ever done this before. No one has ever been you before. This exact interrelated web of people and events… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
“Has God created millions of people over tens of thousands of years who are going to spend eternity in anguish? Can God… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
I have met countless people who call themselves Christians who don't appear to have any living breathing vibrant connection with the resurrected… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
And this reality extends beyond this life. Heaven is full of forgiven people. Hell is full of forgiven people. Heaven is full… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
“For Jesus the point is fruit. You’ll know people by their fruit, by their life, by how they actually live in the… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
“Does God get what God wants? That’s a good question. An interesting question. And it’s an important question that has given us… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
We're rediscovering Christianity as an Eastern religion, as a way of life. — 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 Copy Share Image
“God has to punish sinners, because God is holy, but Jesus has paid the price for our sin, and so we can… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
“It’s in that place that we’re reminded that true life comes when we’re willing to admit that we’ve reached the end of… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Being a pastor for 20 years I realized that the labels, agnostic, atheist, believer, everybody's human and everybody wants to know what… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
This breath, and this moment, and this life is a gift and we are all in this together. We all have countless… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
When we deny the spiritual dimension to our existence, we end up living like animals. And when we deny the physical, sexual… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
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
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
“When people argue for the existence of a supernatural God who is somewhere else and reaches in on occasion to do a… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
To say it again, eternal life is less about a kind of time that starts when we die, and more about a… — 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 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
