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Every generation has to ask difficult questions about what does it mean to follow Jesus. — Rob Bell

When you get married you're starting a conversation that never ends, — Rob Bell

What we believe about heaven and hell is incredibly important because it exposes what we believe about who God is and what God is like. — Rob Bell

Many people confuse religion with God and walk away from them both. The point isn't Christianity, the point is being a Christian. — Rob Bell

My parents were both very intellectually honest, straightforward, and for them, faith meant that you were fully engaged. — Rob Bell

I believe our world desperately needs Good News. — Rob Bell

The life you want begins by embracing the life you have. — Rob Bell

My interest is in what's true, where is the life, where is the heart and what inspires. — Rob Bell

For a lot of people in our world today, God has become about believing the right stuff so you don't get in trouble. — Rob Bell

The Bible tells a story. A story that isn't over. A story that is still being told. A story that we have a part to play in. — Rob Bell

We are not only working on our game, we are working on ourselves. — Rob Bell

Holism is when two plus two equals infinity. — Rob Bell

I believe God gives people the right to say no, to resist, to refuse, to reject, to cling to their sins, to cling to their version of their story. — Rob Bell

Enjoy mystery and speculation, but don't drift into dogma. — Rob Bell

One of the great "theologians" of our time, Sean Penn, put it this way: "When everything gets answered, it's fake. The mystery is the truth."21 — Rob Bell

People have a view of a God who is terrible that they can't even imagine being loving or wanting anything to do with. — Rob Bell

We need to return to the simplicity that God is love. — Rob Bell

I believe the discussion itself is divine. — Rob Bell

I can't find one place in the teachings of Jesus, or the Bible for that matter, where we are to identity ourselves first and foremost as sinners. — Rob Bell

Resurrection is a belief and hope in restoring this world. — Rob Bell

Your life is a gift and how you respond to it - what you do with it matters. That's where I start. — Rob Bell

Pain has a way of making us more honest. — Rob Bell

It is better to be fully present and rested and engaged for one thing than rushed, distracted, and scattered for ten. — Rob Bell

Jesus is God's way of refusing to give up his dream for the world. — Rob Bell

God has spoken, and everything else is commentary. — Rob Bell

Because with every action, comment, conversation, we have the choice to invite Heaven or Hell to Earth. — Rob Bell

We are both large and small, strong and weak, formidable and faint, reflecting the image of the divine, and formed from dust. — Rob Bell

On the Sabbath- we are reminded that we are not human doings, but human beings. — Rob Bell

Everybody is resting on a set of interpretations, and we need to be honest about it. — Rob Bell

God is always present. We're the ones who show up. — Rob Bell

It often takes suffering and lost in order to remind us of how precious life is. — Rob Bell

God wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth" (1 Tim. 2). So does God get what God wants? — Rob Bell

Why blame the dark for being dark? It is far more helpful to ask why the light isn't as bright as it could be. — Rob Bell

When we get to what happens when we die, we don't have any video footage. So let's at least be honest that we are speculating, because we are. — Rob Bell

To me some of the greatest writing is when somebody puts something in words that you felt and experienced and you go, that's it. — Rob Bell

Catherine of Aragon said,"None get to God but through trouble. — Rob Bell

You can be living in a big house, driving a nice car, going on exotic vacations and still be empty inside, crippled with fear and dread. — Rob Bell

Grace is when you know you're loved exactly as you are. — Rob Bell

It's important to embrace several truths about yourself and those around you, beginning with this one: who you AREN'T isn't interesting. — Rob Bell

God is bigger than the Christian faith. — Rob Bell

For Jesus, the question wasn't, "How do I get into heaven?" but "How do I bring heaven here? — Rob Bell

We live in the midst of a creation that is groaning. — Rob Bell

You turn the light on, you get all kinds of bugs. — Rob Bell

The moment God is figured out with nice neat lines and definitions, we are no longer dealing with God. — Rob Bell

We often rush through the experiences that have the greatest shift. — Rob Bell

It's one thing to be in love; it's another to act because of love. Love is a noun - a feeling you have - and it's also a verb, something you do. — Rob Bell

My experience is that lots of people go to church, sing the songs, tell the story, etc but have profound ambivalence about God. — Rob Bell

We all want to make a difference, to live in peace, to have joy each morning that we get to live this day and see what it brings. — Rob Bell

Doctrine is a wonderful servant and a horrible master. — Rob Bell

Everybody is following somebody. Everybody has faith in something and somebody. We are all believers. — Rob Bell

When someone sets out to be controversial or provocative or shocking as an end in itself, I don't think that's a noble goal. — Rob Bell

Why would we ever be surprised when truth turns up in strange places? — Rob Bell

An image of God doesn't contain God, in the same way a word about God or a doctrine or a dogma about God isn't God; it only points to God. — Rob Bell

What we do comes out of who we believe we are. — Rob Bell

That breath that you just took, that's a gift! — Rob Bell

I am for love, whether it's a man and a woman, a woman and a woman, a man and a man. — Rob Bell

The great Abraham Joshua Heschel once said, "I did not ask for success, I asked for wonder."17 — Rob Bell

Often times when I meet atheists and we talk about the god they don't believe in, we quickly discover that I don't believe in that god, either. — Rob Bell

If there's any place where you would express your deepest doubts, it would be church. — Rob Bell

Jesus doesn't divide the world up into the common and the sacred; he gives us eyes to see the sacred in the common. — Rob Bell

Being a Christian then is more about celebrating mystery than conquering it. — Rob Bell

The hardness of the human heart makes no sense. — Rob Bell

Any time someone makes you feel guilty about how you are living, that is part of the old system (pre-Christ). — Rob Bell

Swords appear strong, but they're actually quite weak. Jesus appears weak, but he's actually quite strong. — Rob Bell

Well, I affirm orthodox Christian faith. I affirm the Nicene Creed. I don't think I'm doing anything terribly new. — Rob Bell

The fact that we are loved and accepted and forgiven in spite of everything we have done is simply too good to be true. — Rob Bell

When you're fighting, it's absolutely crucial to keep remembering that they're trying to figure it out just like you are. — Rob Bell

There are moments when we have to return to our roots. — Rob Bell

In every life there is an energy field created because we are energy, giving out energy, creating energy . — Rob Bell

If anybody didn't have a messiah complex, it was Jesus — Rob Bell

The lesson that has been hardest for me to learn: there is nothing to prove. — Rob Bell

Look at the size of the universe and look at what we're discovering about string theory. There's a wide-eyed sense of we're just getting started here. — Rob Bell

When you create space for another to thrive, it always unleashes new energies. — Rob Bell

The best team does not always win, it's the team that plays the best. — Rob Bell

The first word about you is that you received this life ... — Rob Bell

I live with the understanding that truth is bigger than any religion and the world is God's and everything in it ... — Rob Bell

Something is profoundly wrong and we are desperate for justice, for restoration and for somebody somewhere to do something about this. — Rob Bell

We are only as sick as our secrets. — Rob Bell

The thought of the word church and the word marketing in the same sentence makes me sick. — Rob Bell

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

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

The life that you want begins the moment you embrace the life you have because all of it is a miracle. — Rob Bell

You're here, you're breathing, you are the recipient of an extraordinary act of generosity called life. — Rob Bell

Because sometimes you need a biologist, and sometimes you need a poet. Sometimes you need a scientist, and sometimes you need a song. — Rob Bell

If it is true, if it is beautiful, if it is honorable, if it is right, then claim it. Because it is from God. And you belong to God. — Rob Bell

I actually think there is hell because we see hell every day. — Rob Bell

God is in the best, and also the worst. God is in the presence, and also in the absence. God is in the power, and also in the powerlessness. — Rob Bell

When in doubt, assume that they're seeing something that you aren't. — Rob Bell

The fundamental story arc of the Bible is God is passionate about rescuing this world, restoring it, renewing it. — Rob Bell

People received, affirmed and experienced grace in many different forms. — Rob Bell

Many of the most significant moments in our lives come not because it all went right but because it all fell apart — Rob Bell

But sometimes when I hear people quote the Bible, I just want to throw up. — Rob Bell

People are rarely persuaded by arguments, but more often by experiences. — Rob Bell

Decide now that you will not spend your precious energy speculating about someone else's life and how it compares with yours. — Rob Bell

When you come to the end of yourself, you are at that exact moment in the kind of place where you can fully experience the God who is for you. — Rob Bell

I get ideas about things I want to make and then I throw myself into it with everything I have. — Rob Bell

All work is ultimately creative work because all of us are taking part in the ongoing creation of the world. There's — Rob Bell

People aren't static; they're dynamic - endlessly complex and capable of tremendous surprise and change. — Rob Bell

Like a mirror, God appears to be more and more a reflection of whoever it is that happens to be talking about God at the moment. — Rob Bell

The cross is Gods way of taking away all of our accusations, excuses, and arguments. — Rob Bell