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Rob Bell

(1970) Primary School Teacher United States

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Rob Bell is a primary school teacher from the United States, best known for Love Wins.

Quick Facts About Rob Bell

Born: August 23, 1970
Nationality: United States
Profession: Primary School Teacher
Notable works: Love Wins

About Rob Bell

Robert Holmes Bell Jr. is an American author, speaker, playwright, musician and former pastor. Bell founded Mars Hill Bible Church in Grandville, Michigan, and pastored it until 2012. Under his leadership, Mars Hill was one of the fastest-growing churches in America.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Rob Bell

If the gospel isn't good news for everybody, then it isn't good news for anybody.

Christianity

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Why blame the dark for being dark? It is far more helpful to ask why the light isn’t as bright as it…

Blame

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“This story... blasts to pieces our biases and labels with a declaration that God is on everyone's side, extending grace and compassion…

Compassion

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One truth is that suffering raises profound questions with the universe. The other truth is that grace, gift and generosity also raise…

Generosity

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For Jesus, heaven and hell were present realities. Ways of living we can enter into here and now. He talked very little…

Heaven

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Love is what God is, love is why Jesus came, and love is why he continues to come, year after year to…

And love

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I believe that God is love. I believe that Jesus came to show us this love, to give us this love, to…

Believe

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If the gospel isn't good news for everybody, then it isn't good news for anybody. And this is because the most powerful…

Acts of service

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“I don’t read the Bible like a flat line. I don’t see all of the passages in the Bible sitting equally side…

Bible

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To elevate abstract doctrines and dogmas over living, breathing, embodied experiences of God's love and grace, then, is going the wrong direction.…

Abstract

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The modern world has created airports and hospitals and put 10,000 songs in our pocket. It has built gleaming buildings and computers…

Airports

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God is bigger than the Christian faith.

Bigger

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What you believe about the future shapes, informs, and determines how you live now.

Believe

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The life you want begins by embracing the life you have.

Inspirational

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It takes quite a spine to turn the other cheek. It takes phenomenal fortitude to love your enemy. It takes firm resolve…

Enemy

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Two of the most powerful words you can hear someone say are ‘me too.’

Most powerful

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To me some of the greatest writing is when somebody puts something in words that you felt and experienced and you go,…

Felt

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“Can your story be retold? Can all of the various things that have happened to you and the things you have done…

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“In the religious version, you’ll often hear that when this happens, one group heads to a good place, and the rest of…

Good place

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Christian is a great noun and a poor adjective

Adjectives

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When people use the word hell, what do they mean? They mean a place, an event, a situation absent of how God…

Absent

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Because with every action, comment, conversation, we have the choice to invite Heaven or Hell to Earth.

Action

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When you forgive somebody, when you are generous, when you withhold judgment, when you love and when you stand up to injustice,…

Earth

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What does happen constantly with all kinds of people I meet is they say "I had this encounter with Jesus, can you…

All kinds

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I got into pastoring because of the art form. I started a church, but I felt the art form needed to be…

Alive

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Rob Bell by topic

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