For Jesus, heaven and hell were present realities. Ways of living we can enter into here and now. He talked very little… — 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
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
That may sound a big vague, but what has struck me in city after city is that despite our differences and diversity,… — 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
To make it really clear and simple, let's call this movement across history we see in passages like the ones we just… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
There's way too much wonder and mystery all around us to not stay open to more that's going on here. You can… — 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
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
When the lab rats hear the bell ringing, they freeze. That's what fear does to you - fear stops you dead in… — 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
We're rediscovering Christianity as an Eastern religion, as a way of life. — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Agape doesn't love somebody because they're worthy. Agape makes them worthy by the strength and power of its love. Agape doesn't love… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
What if tomorrow someone digs up definitive proof that Jesus had a real, earthly, biological father named Larry, and archeologists find Larry's… — 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
When we deny the spiritual dimension to our existence, we end up living like animals. And when we deny the physical, sexual… — 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
The cross is Gods way of taking away all of our accusations, excuses, and arguments. — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
We can choose the way of compassion, the way of forgiveness, the way of generosity. Or we can choose other paths and… — 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
