The myth of redemptive violence - Caesar, peace, and victory - is in people's bones so deeply, we aren't even aware of… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
One truth is that suffering raises profound questions with the universe. The other truth is that grace, gift and generosity also raise… — Rob Bell Generosity Copy Share Image
“In a letter, Martin Luther, one of the leaders of the Protestant Reformation, wrote to Hans von Rechenberg in 1522 about the… — Rob Bell Death Copy Share Image
Whether we are reading the Bible for the first time or standing in a field in Israel next to a historian and… — Rob Bell Archaeologists Copy Share Image
You want people who are both great fans and supporters and believers of your work and people who are also ruthlessly honest.… — Rob Bell Believer Copy Share Image
“Churches and religious communities and organizations can claim to speak for God while at the same time actually being behind the movement… — Rob Bell Religion Copy Share Image
“Whatever we say about God always rests within the larger reality of what we can’t say; meaning always resides within a larger… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
“God has to punish sinners, because God is holy, but Jesus has paid the price for our sin, and so we can… — Rob Bell Christianity Copy Share Image
“For Jesus the point is fruit. You’ll know people by their fruit, by their life, by how they actually live in the… — Rob Bell Life Copy Share Image
“The story is like the other stories about gods demanding acts of devotion and obedience. Gods who are never satisfied. The first… — Rob Bell Religion Copy Share Image
Jesus is bigger than any one religion. He didn't come to start a new religion, and he continually disrupted whatever conventions or… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
“But it’s in that disappointment, in that confusion, in that pain—the pain that comes from things not going how I wanted them… — Rob Bell Pain Copy Share Image
I would say that the powerful, revolutionary thing about Jesus' message is that he says, 'What do you do with the people… — Rob Bell Christianity Copy Share Image
[The Bible] has to be interpreted. And if it isn’t interpreted, then it can’t be put into action. So if we are… — Rob Bell Action Copy Share Image
“What's the Best Question to Ask When You're Reading the Bible? Why did people find this important to write down?...Why did people… — Rob Bell Bible Copy Share Image
“But in reading all of the passages in which Jesus uses the word "hell," what is so striking is that people believing… — Rob Bell Christianity Copy Share Image
We embrace truth wherever we find it from whoever says it however we come across it. It's a big beautiful exotic heartbreaking… — Rob Bell Beautiful Copy Share Image
“Why have the writings of the prophets endured? Because they fearlessly speak truth to power. They call out the injustice and oppression… — Rob Bell Justice Copy Share Image
“The point of the Abraham-and-Isaac story isn’t that you should sacrifice your kid but that you can leave behind any notion of… — Rob Bell Abraham Copy Share Image
I got into pastoring because of the art form. I started a church, but I felt the art form needed to be… — Rob Bell Alive Copy Share Image
The danger is that in reaction to abuses and distortions of an idea, we'll reject it completely. And in the process miss… — Rob Bell Abuse Copy Share Image
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… — Rob Bell Agape Copy Share Image
My experience as a pastor is lots of people have really toxic, dangerous, psychologically devastating images of God in their head, images… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
“God doesn’t wait for us to get ourselves polished, shined, proper, and without blemish—God comes to us and meets us and blesses… — Rob Bell God Copy Share Image
“You just took a breath. You're about to take another. Inhale, then exhale, then another inhale. In and out. There's a rhythm… — Rob Bell Breath Copy Share Image
To be honest with you, I am passionate about all the people out there who want to know Jesus, they want to… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
When the female voice is repressed and stifled, the entire community can easily find themselves cut off from the sacred feminine, depriving… — Rob Bell Community Copy Share Image
“People wrote these stories down because they found in them something that helped restore their dignity; the stories gave them a sense… — Rob Bell Respect Copy Share Image
“Confession is like really, really healthy vomit. It may smell and get all over the front of your shirt, but you feel… — Rob Bell Confession Copy Share Image
This is why for thousands of years Christians have found the cross to be so central to life. It speaks to us… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
I embrace the term 'evangelical,' if by that we mean a belief that we together can actually work for change in the… — Rob Bell Beautiful Copy Share Image
It's as if Thomas Kinkade and Dante were at a party, and one turned to the other sometime after midnight and uttered… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
“When people argue for the existence of a supernatural God who is somewhere else and reaches in on occasion to do a… — Rob Bell God Copy Share Image
For many, 'desire' is a bad word, something we're supposed to 'give up for God.' That kind of thinking can be really… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
We can choose the way of compassion, the way of forgiveness, the way of generosity. Or we can choose other paths and… — Rob Bell Compassion Copy Share Image
Your life is a gift. Before anything else can be said about you, for some reason the universe (or God, or being,… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
The world is desperately in need of people who will break themselves open and pour themselves out for the reconciliation of all… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
“Second, Jesus consistently affirmed heaven as a real place, space, and dimension of God’s creation, where God’s will and only God’s will… — Rob Bell Heaven Copy Share Image
I'm interested in painting the most beautifully compelling pictures and images and metaphors and stories and explanations possible that will put Jesus… — Rob Bell Artist Copy Share Image
“Because when you can’t hear the cry, when you stop caring for the widow, the orphan, and the refugee among you, it… — Rob Bell Refugee Copy Share Image
![“[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 God, then we have to interpret the Bible. It is not possible to simply do what the Bible says. We must first make decisions about what it means at this time, in…” quote by Rob Bell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fe2/rob-bell-1025_action_the-bible-has-to-be-interpreted-and-if-i_1946930.png)
