The interactions I have are with people who are very kind and very grateful and they say very overwhelming things to me.… — Rob Bell Grateful Copy Share Image
I feel like I've gotten an extraordinary opportunity to experience a sort of collective humanity. If you hug many people in such… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
“We want a little risk in our lives because it keeps things interesting. It wakes us up, it gives us a sense… — Rob Bell Breathing Copy Share Image
Creating and sharing beautiful things has provided me with the inspiration that we can do things we never thought we could do… — Rob Bell Beautiful Copy Share Image
When we deny the spiritual dimension to our existence, we end up living like animals. And when we deny the physical, sexual… — Rob Bell Angel Copy Share Image
This breath, and this moment, and this life is a gift and we are all in this together. We all have countless… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
“a person who speaks to this hour’s need will always be skirting the edge of heresy, but only the person who risks… — Rob Bell Heresy Copy Share Image
“The question is: Why have these poems and prayers endured? Why, thousands of years later, do we still have them? And the… — Rob Bell Human experience Copy Share Image
If the gospel isn't good news for everybody, then it isn't good news for anybody. And this is because the most powerful… — Rob Bell Acts of service Copy Share Image
“On earth, lots of wills are done. Yours, mine, and many others. And so, at present, heaven and earth are not one.… — Rob Bell Bible Copy Share Image
“Bitterness is not your friend. It's easy to become cynical, focusing your energies on them and endlessly wondering why they aren't more… — Rob Bell Arrogant Copy Share Image
I have met countless people who call themselves Christians who don't appear to have any living breathing vibrant connection with the resurrected… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
It often appears that those who talk the most about going to heaven when you die talk the least about bringing heaven… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
And this reality extends beyond this life. Heaven is full of forgiven people. Hell is full of forgiven people. Heaven is full… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Culture is already there and the church will continue to be even more irrelevant when it quotes letters from two thousand years… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
The Bible itself is a book that constantly must be wrestled with and re-interpreted. ... Bible interpretation is colored by historical context,… — Rob Bell Bias Copy Share Image
When someone wrongs us, we rarely (if ever) want to do the same thing back. Why? Because we want to do something… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
I believe that God is with you, that there is a presence. I believe this God is for you. I don't think… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
“What does it mean to never be separated from love? Is that how you live every day? In every thought, are you… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
I do a meet and greet after every show in which I tell the audience that I would love to thank every… — Rob Bell Audience Copy Share Image
“Be patient. Don't force your experiences on others. The moving of spirit is a great mystery, and how or why or when… — Rob Bell Religion Copy Share Image
Being a pastor for 20 years I realized that the labels, agnostic, atheist, believer, everybody's human and everybody wants to know what… — Rob Bell Agnostic Copy Share Image
To elevate abstract doctrines and dogmas over living, breathing, embodied experiences of God's love and grace, then, is going the wrong direction.… — Rob Bell Abstract Copy Share Image
“This story... blasts to pieces our biases and labels with a declaration that God is on everyone's side, extending grace and compassion… — Rob Bell Compassion Copy Share Image
Fear wants us to become obsessed with some event or person in the future, a year, a month, even a day. It… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
We live in a world where we have friends, neighbors, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, people we journey with for years who are… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
“Some things that are labeled Christian aren’t true, and some things that aren’t labeled Christian are true. Some atheists say lots of… — Rob Bell Atheists Copy Share Image
“The priest's work, the priest's service, was understood as an act of worship. This was God's desire at Sinai - that everybody… — Rob Bell Helping others Copy Share Image
“A Christian is not someone who expects to spend forever in heaven there. A Christian is someone who anticipates spending forever here,… — Rob Bell Christian Copy Share Image
Do we get what we want? Yes, we get what we want. God is that loving. If we want isolation, despair, and… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
“No one has ever done this before. No one has ever been you before. This exact interrelated web of people and events… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
What is God like? Because millions and millions of people were taught that the primary message - the center of the Gospel… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
So this is reality, this forgiveness, this reconciliation, is true for everybody. Paul insisted that when Jesus died on the cross, he… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
“What we see in these passages is God meeting people, tribes, and cultures right where they are and drawing and inviting and… — Rob Bell Human history Copy Share Image
“It is possible for music to be labeled "Christian" and be terrible music. It could lack creativity and inspiration. The lyrics could… — Rob Bell Art Copy Share Image
“I’m convinced being generous is a better way to live. I’m convinced forgiving people and not carrying around bitterness is a better… — Rob Bell Better way Copy Share Image
“Has God created millions of people over tens of thousands of years who are going to spend eternity in anguish? Can God… — Rob Bell Christianity Copy Share Image
God then makes people whom he puts right in the middle of all this loaded creation. Commanding them to care for creation,… — Rob Bell Care Copy Share Image
I would hope that wherever I go I bring good news - that's what that word means, right? It began with the… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
“What you find in the Bible are stories accurately reflecting the dominant consciousness of the day, and yet right in among and… — Rob Bell Bible Copy Share Image
