Any time someone makes you feel guilty about how you are living, that is part of the old system (pre-Christ). — Rob Bell Christ Copy Share Image
If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship. — Rob Bell Desire 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 Differences Copy Share Image
“Because sometimes you need a biologist, and sometimes you need a poet. Sometimes you need a scientist, and sometimes you need a… — Rob Bell Poetry Copy Share Image
It is better to be fully present and rested and engaged for one thing than rushed, distracted, and scattered for ten. — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
The cross is Gods way of taking away all of our accusations, excuses, and arguments. — Rob Bell Accusation Copy Share Image
The resurrection confronts our world with wonder, mystery, and miracles. — Rob Bell Miracle Copy Share Image
“everybody is resting on a set of interpretations, and we need to be honest about it.” — Rob Bell Honest Copy Share Image
“The Bible was written by Jewish people who belonged to a Jewish minority living under the oppression of a succession of massive… — Rob Bell Bible Copy Share Image
It takes quite a spine to turn the other cheek. It takes phenomenal fortitude to love your enemy. It takes firm resolve… — Rob Bell Enemy 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 Breath 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… — Rob Bell Heaven Copy Share Image
“There are always two risks: the risk of trying something new, and the risk of not trying. You risk settling and continuing… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
At the center of the Christian tradition since the first church have been a number who insist that history is not tragic,… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
As a pastor, you get invited into the most poignant moments of people's lives. Whether it's a wedding or a funeral or… — Rob Bell Events Copy Share Image
Love is giving up control. It’s surrendering the desire to control the other person. The two—love and controlling power over the other… — Rob Bell Desire Copy Share Image
Take faith, for example. For many people in our world, the opposite of faith is doubt. The goal, then, within this understanding,… — Rob Bell Alive Copy Share Image
If this understanding of the good news of Jesus prevailed among Christians, the belief that Jesus’s message is about how to get… — Rob Bell Belief Copy Share Image
“Can your story be retold? Can all of the various things that have happened to you and the things you have done… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
“But this lawyer, he can’t even answer Jesus’s question by saying the name. He simply replies the one . . . That’s… — Rob Bell Eternal life Copy Share Image
“This extraordinary technology that makes it possible for us to connect with someone on the other side of the world also disconnects… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
“Groups have a center of gravity. Families, friends, churches, offices, and schools all have a dominant consciousness, a center of gravity, a… — 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
“If there is a divine being who made everything, including us, what would our experiences with this being look like? The moment… — Rob Bell God Copy Share Image
You can set your intention to better understand your soul, your spirit, through daily practices like prayer, yoga and meditation, etc. — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
To me some of the greatest writing is when somebody puts something in words that you felt and experienced and you go,… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
My parents were both very intellectually honest, straightforward, and for them, faith meant that you were fully engaged. — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
I am for love, whether it's a man and a woman, a woman and a woman, a man and a man. — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
It is such a letdown to rise from the dead and have your friends not recognize you. — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
It often takes suffering and lost in order to remind us of how precious life is. — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
When someone sets out to be controversial or provocative or shocking as an end in itself, I don't think that's a noble… — Rob Bell Controversial Copy Share Image
My experience is that lots of people go to church, sing the songs, tell the story, etc but have profound ambivalence about… — Rob Bell Ambivalence Copy Share Image
Every generation has to ask difficult questions about what does it mean to follow Jesus. — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Many in the modern world fell for the myth that we're living in a static, fixed, flat reality of just material things. — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
On the Sabbath- we are reminded that we are not human doings, but human beings. — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Before anything else, you have received breath - the gift of life itself. The first word about you is GIFT. — Rob Bell Breath 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… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
A good sermon is going to disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed. It inspires you. It provokes you. It should make… — Rob Bell Comfort Copy Share Image
My interest is in what's true, where is the life, where is the heart and what inspires. — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
I like to say that I practice militant mysticism. I'm really absolutely sure of some things that I don't quite know. — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
