What you believe about the future shapes, informs, and determines how you live now. — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
When you forgive somebody, when you are generous, when you withhold judgment, when you love and when you stand up to injustice,… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore. — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
The moment God is figured out with nice neat lines and definitions, we are no longer dealing with God. — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Like a mirror, God appears to be more and more a reflection of whoever it is that happens to be talking about… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
“If you are working on something, about to deliver it, moments from opening the doors, an hour from everybody arriving, a week… — 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
Many of the most significant moments in our lives come not because it all went right but because it all fell apart — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Any time someone makes you feel guilty about how you are living, that is part of the old system (pre-Christ). — 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
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
[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
“One of the great “theologians” of our time, Sean Penn, put it this way: “When everything gets answered, it’s fake. The mystery… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Often times when I meet atheists and we talk about the god they don’t believe in, we quickly discover that I don’t… — 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
Fear wants us to become obsessed with some event or person in the future, a year, a month, even a day. It… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
“As we experience this love, there is a temptation at times to become hostile to our earlier understandings, feeling embarrassed that we… — 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
opening up your soul to someone, letting them into your spirit, thoughts, fears, future, hopes, dreams ... that is being naked. — 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
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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