The moment God is figured out with nice neat lines and definitions, we are no longer dealing with God. — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Your life is a gift and how you respond to it - what you do with it matters. That's where I start. — Rob Bell Gift Copy Share Image
Many of the most significant moments in our lives come not because it all went right but because it all fell apart — Rob Bell Moments Copy Share Image
It's absolutely crucial that we come face to face with the power of our choices. — Rob Bell Choice Copy Share Image
If there's any place where you would express your deepest doubts, it would be church. — Rob Bell Church Copy Share Image
For a lot of people in our world today, God has become about believing the right stuff so you don't get in… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
opening up your soul to someone, letting them into your spirit, thoughts, fears, future, hopes, dreams ... that is being naked. — Rob Bell Dream Copy Share Image
Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore. — Rob Bell Demand Copy Share Image
We need a childlike trust that God is good... ultimately we are OK. That is a simple, beautiful pure thing that can… — Rob Bell Beautiful Copy Share Image
“The priest's work, the priest's service, was understoon as an act of worship. Theis was God"s desire at Sinai - thst everybody… — Rob Bell Faith Copy Share Image
This is misguided and toxic and ultimately subverts the contagious spread of Jesus’ message of love, peace, forgiveness and joy that our… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
When you forgive somebody, when you are generous, when you withhold judgment, when you love and when you stand up to injustice,… — Rob Bell Earth 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… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
What does happen constantly with all kinds of people I meet is they say "I had this encounter with Jesus, can you… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
I am for marriage. I am for fidelity. I am for love, whether it's a man and woman, a woman and a… — Rob Bell Church Copy Share Image
For many people, God is primitive, behind, trying to drag everything back to some prehistoric era as opposed to spirit, force, love,… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
A lot of Christians have been taught a story that begins in chapter 3 of Genesis, instead of chapter 1. If your… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
“What happens is our lives become so heavily oriented around the expectations of others that we become more and more like them… — Rob Bell Christian 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
When Isaiah predicted that spears would become pruning hooks, that's a reference to cultivating. Pruning and trimming and growing and paying close… — Rob Bell Age Copy Share Image
“What does Jesus mean when he uses that word “heaven”? ___________________ First, there was tremendous respect in the culture that Jesus lived… — Rob Bell Kingdom of heaven 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 Alive Copy Share Image
“Think about some of the words that are used in these kinds of discussions, one of the most common being the phrase… — Rob Bell Christian faith Copy Share Image
“When people charge in with great insistence that this is God’s word all the while neglecting the very real humanity of these… — Rob Bell Book Copy Share Image
“Jesus doesn’t divide the world up into the common and the sacred; he gives us eyes to see the sacred in the… — Rob Bell Religion Copy Share Image
You're here, you're breathing, you are the recipient of an extraordinary act of generosity called life. — Rob Bell Breathing Copy Share Image
Often times when I meet atheists and we talk about the god they don’t believe in, we quickly discover that I don’t… — Rob Bell Atheist Copy Share Image
Salvation is the entire universe being brought back into harmony with its maker. — Rob Bell Harmony Copy Share Image
Something is profoundly wrong and we are desperate for justice, for restoration and for somebody somewhere to do something about this. — Rob Bell Desperate Copy Share Image
Freedom is not having everything we crave, it's being able to go without the things we crave and being OK with it. — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
I have been told that I need to believe in Jesus. Which is a good thing. But what I am learning is… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
I get ideas about things I want to make and then I throw myself into it with everything I have. — Rob Bell Ideas Copy Share Image
Like a mirror, God appears to be more and more a reflection of whoever it is that happens to be talking about… — Rob Bell God Copy Share Image
People have a view of a God who is terrible that they can't even imagine being loving or wanting anything to do… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
We're rediscovering Christianity as an Eastern religion, as a way of life. — Rob Bell Christianity Copy Share Image
If it is true, if it is beautiful, if it is honorable, if it is right, then claim it. Because it is… — Rob Bell Beautiful Copy Share Image
What you believe about the future shapes, informs, and determines how you live now. — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Well, I affirm orthodox Christian faith. I affirm the Nicene Creed. I don't think I'm doing anything terribly new. — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Your job is the relentless pursuit of who God made you to be. And anything else you do is sin and you… — Rob Bell Fresh start Copy Share Image
