Rob Bell Quotes

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• Salvation is the entire universe being brought back into harmony with its maker.
• [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…
• Your job is the relentless pursuit of who God made you to be. And anything else you do is sin and you need to repent…
• 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.
• The danger is that in reaction to abuses and distortions of an idea, we'll reject it completely. And in the process miss out on the…
• 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 somebody because they're…
• What we do comes out of who we believe we are.
• Freedom is not having everything we crave, it's being able to go without the things we crave and being OK with it.
• Everybody is following somebody. Everybody has faith in something and somebody. We are all believers.
• It takes quite a spine to turn the other cheek. It takes phenomenal fortitude to love your enemy. It takes firm resolve to pray for…
• This is why for thousands of years Christians have found the cross to be so central to life. It speaks to us of God's suffering,…
• Our tendency in the midst of suffering is to turn on God. To get angry and bitter and shake our fist at the sky and…
• When we deny the spiritual dimension to our existence, we end up living like animals. And when we deny the physical, sexual dimension to our…
• Jesus is bigger than any one religion. He didn't come to start a new religion, and he continually disrupted whatever conventions or systems or establishments…
• Times change. God doesn’t, but times do. We learn and grow, and the world around us shifts, and the Christian faith is alive only when…
• Your deepest, darkest sins and your shameful secrets are simply irrelevant when it comes to the counterintuitive, ecstatic announcement of the gospel. So are your…
• It's as if Thomas Kinkade and Dante were at a party, and one turned to the other sometime after midnight and uttered that classic line…
• Some communities don't permit open, honest inquiry about the things that matter most. Lots of people have voiced a concern, expressed a doubt, or raised…
• opening up your soul to someone, letting them into your spirit, thoughts, fears, future, hopes, dreams ... that is being naked.
• You turn the light on, you get all kinds of bugs.

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