You can set your intention to better understand your soul, your spirit, through daily practices like prayer, yoga and meditation, etc. — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
I think the church needs – I think this is the world we are living in and we need to affirm people… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
The fundamental story arc of the Bible is God is passionate about rescuing this world, restoring it, renewing it. — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
I live with the understanding that truth is bigger than any religion and the world is God’s and everything in it... — 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
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
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
Whether we are reading the Bible for the first time or standing in a field in Israel next to a historian and… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Jesus is bigger than any one religion. He didn't come to start a new religion, and he continually disrupted whatever conventions or… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
“Churches and religious communities and organizations can claim to speak for God while at the same time actually being behind the movement… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
“It's all—let's use a very specific word here—miraculous. You, me, love, quarks, sex, chocolate, the speed of light—it's all miraculous, and it… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the reason people have a problem accepting 'the gospel' is that they sense that the God lurking behind Jesus isn't safe,… — 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
“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
“Be patient. Don't force your experiences on others. The moving of spirit is a great mystery, and how or why or when… — 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
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
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
“This participation is important, because Jesus and the prophets lived with an awareness that God has been looking for partners since the… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
“Because the Jesus message is first and foremost an announcement of who you are. It’s about your identity, about the new word… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
“In the religious version, you’ll often hear that when this happens, one group heads to a good place, and the rest of… — Rob Bell 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 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
“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
“Now imagine what happened when people would offer a sacrifice but then it didn’t rain or the sun didn’t shine or their… — 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… — 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… — Rob Bell 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 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 Copy Share Image
The Bible itself is a book that constantly must be wrestled with and re-interpreted. ... Bible interpretation is colored by historical context,… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
“The Bible is a library of books reflecting how human beings have understood the divine. People at that time believed the gods… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
What is God like? Because millions and millions of people were taught that the primary message - the center of the Gospel… — 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
God then makes people whom he puts right in the middle of all this loaded creation. Commanding them to care for creation,… — 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
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
![“[The Bible] has to be interpreted. And if it isn’t interpreted, then it can’t be put into action. So if we are serious about following God, then we have to interpret the Bible. It is not possible to simply do what the Bible says. We must first make decisions about what it means at this time, in…” quote by Rob Bell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/fe2/rob-bell-1025_action_the-bible-has-to-be-interpreted-and-if-i_1946930.jpg)
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