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
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
What you believe about the future shapes, informs, and determines how you live now. — 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
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
The moment God is figured out with nice neat lines and definitions, we are no longer dealing with God. — 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
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
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
“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
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
“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
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
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
[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
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
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
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
“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
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)
