When people use the word hell, what do they mean? They mean a place, an event, a situation absent of how God… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
I get ideas about things I want to make and then I throw myself into it with everything I have. — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
God gives us what we want. For people who want nothing to do with peace, joy, reconciliation and peace... God will give… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Culture is already there and the church will continue to be even more irrelevant when it quotes letters from two thousand years… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Do we get what we want? Yes, we get what we want. God is that loving. If we want isolation, despair, and… — 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
When someone wrongs us, we rarely (if ever) want to do the same thing back. Why? Because we want to do something… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Love demands freedom. It always has, and it always will. We are free to resist, reject, and rebel against God's ways for… — 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
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
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
We all want to make a difference, to live in peace, to have joy each morning that we get to live this… — 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
One of the oldest aches in the bones of humanity is loneliness. I mean it's one of the things that goes way… — 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
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
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
