Many people confuse religion with God and walk away from them both. The point isn't Christianity, the point is being a Christian. — 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
I feel like I've gotten an extraordinary opportunity to experience a sort of collective humanity. If you hug many people in such… — 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
Missions then is less about the transportation of God from one place to another and more about the identification of a God… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
In our culture, Christians are known for a number of other things... Rarely do you hear people say, 'Oh yeah, those are… — Rob Bell 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
I would say that the powerful, revolutionary thing about Jesus' message is that he says, 'What do you do with the people… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
[The Bible] has to be interpreted. And if it isn’t interpreted, then it can’t be put into action. So if we are… — Rob Bell 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
Times change. God doesn’t, but times do. We learn and grow, and the world around us shifts, and the Christian faith is… — 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
In one of the accounts of Jesus's death we read that the curtain in the temple of God-the one that kept people… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
I am for marriage. I am for fidelity. I am for love, whether it's a man and woman, a woman and a… — Rob Bell 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 Copy Share Image
You want people who are both great fans and supporters and believers of your work and people who are also ruthlessly honest.… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
The myth of redemptive violence - Caesar, peace, and victory - is in people's bones so deeply, we aren't even aware of… — 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
I think what's happened in the modern world, there's a lot of people that sound very smart and it's very compelling and… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Over the years, I've realized that I have as much in common with the performance artist, the standup comedian, the screenwriter, as… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
For many people, God is primitive, behind, trying to drag everything back to some prehistoric era as opposed to spirit, force, love,… — Rob Bell 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 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
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