“We are not only working on our game, we are working on ourselves.” — Rob Bell Football Copy Share Image
Love frees us to embrace all of our history, the history in which all things are being made new. — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
I live with the understanding that truth is bigger than any religion and the world is God’s and everything in it... — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
“The great Abraham Joshua Heschel once said, “I did not ask for success, I asked for wonder.”17” — Rob Bell Abraham Copy Share Image
The Bible tells a story. A story that isn’t over. A story that is still being told. A story that we have… — Rob Bell Bible Copy Share Image
“But sometimes when I hear people quote the Bible, I just want to throw up.” — Rob Bell Bible Copy Share Image
The fundamental story arc of the Bible is God is passionate about rescuing this world, restoring it, renewing it. — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
If your faith is threatened by something that's true, then it wasn't much of a faith to begin with, was it? — Rob Bell Faith Copy Share Image
You can be living in a big house, driving a nice car, going on exotic vacations and still be empty inside, crippled… — Rob Bell Big houses Copy Share Image
Suffering is traumatic and awful and we get angry and we shake our fists at the heavens and we vent and rage… — Rob Bell Angry Copy Share Image
What's interesting is, if you take the scientists and the theologians, the really good ones, they end up both filled with this… — Rob Bell Awe Copy Share Image
“It's all—let's use a very specific word here—miraculous. You, me, love, quarks, sex, chocolate, the speed of light—it's all miraculous, and it… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the reason people have a problem accepting 'the gospel' is that they sense that the God lurking behind Jesus isn't safe,… — Rob Bell Christianity Copy Share Image
The great German scholar Helmut Thielicke once said that a person who speaks to this hour’s need will always be skirting the… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
“And if you keep telling people who they are, who their best selves are, if you keep reminding them of their true… — Rob Bell Identity Copy Share Image
Over the years, I've realized that I have as much in common with the performance artist, the standup comedian, the screenwriter, as… — Rob Bell Art Copy Share Image
“What will you do with your power and wealth and might and armies? What kind of world will you create with it?… — Rob Bell Empire Copy Share Image
In one of the accounts of Jesus's death we read that the curtain in the temple of God-the one that kept people… — Rob Bell Access Copy Share Image
Missions then is less about the transportation of God from one place to another and more about the identification of a God… — Rob Bell Creative 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 God 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 Absurd Copy Share Image
“First, the Bible has to be interpreted. When someone says they’re just doing what the Bible says to do, they didn’t greet… — Rob Bell Bible 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 Butterflies Copy Share Image
The peace we are offered is not a peace that is free from tragedy, illness, bankruptcy, divorce, depression, or heartache. It is… — Rob Bell Bankruptcy Copy Share Image
“Arguing about how it literally happened can be an easy way to avoid facing the people in your life you need to… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
“We need you to be you. We don’t need a second anybody. We need the first you.” — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
What we believe about heaven and hell is incredibly important because it exposes what we believe about who God is and what… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
“For Jesus, the question wasn’t, “How do I get into heaven?” but “How do I bring heaven here?” — Rob Bell Jesus 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
I think the church needs – I think this is the world we are living in and we need to affirm people… — Rob Bell Church Copy Share Image
“Being a Christian then is more about celebrating mystery than conquering it.” — Rob Bell Celebrating Copy Share Image