Rob Bell Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Rob Bell
Rob Bell Famous Quotes & Sayings
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This is how you remember God: you bless those who need it the most in the same way that God blessed you when you needed it the most.
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.
Many people confuse religion with God and walk away from them both. The point isn't Christianity, the point is being a Christian.
My parents were both very intellectually honest, straightforward, and for them, faith meant that you were fully engaged.
Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.
For a lot of people in our world today, God has become about believing the right stuff so you don't get in trouble.
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.
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.
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
The joy is in the creation. So I've never had a target audience, it's always been about being true to the work as it emerges.
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.
Because with every action, comment, conversation, we have the choice to invite Heaven or Hell to Earth.
Your job is the relentless pursuit of who God made you to be. And anything else you do is sin and you need to repent of it.
all of life matters, all work is holy, all moments sacred, all encounters with others encounters with the divine.
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.
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.
Jesus doesn't divide the world up into the common and the sacred; he gives us eyes to see the sacred in the common.
Sociologically, large groups of people don't generally have massive changes in their belief instantaneously.
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.
You can set your intention to better understand your soul, your spirit, through daily practices like prayer, yoga and meditation, etc.
For a staggering number of people in our world the for of the Jesus message has been buried under a massive pile of againsts. Somewhere
We cannot earn what we have always had. What we can do is trust that what God keeps insisting is true about us is actually true.
I like to say that I practice militant mysticism. I'm really absolutely sure of some things that I don't quite know.
A good sermon is going to disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed. It inspires you. It provokes you. It should make your soul soar.
In every life there is an energy field created because we are energy, giving out energy, creating energy .
All work is ultimately creative work because all of us are taking part in the ongoing creation of the world. There's
People aren't static; they're dynamic - endlessly complex and capable of tremendous surprise and change.
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.
Swords appear strong, but they're actually quite weak. Jesus appears weak, but he's actually quite strong.
Well, I affirm orthodox Christian faith. I affirm the Nicene Creed. I don't think I'm doing anything terribly new.
When you're fighting, it's absolutely crucial to keep remembering that they're trying to figure it out just like you are.
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.
Any time someone makes you feel guilty about how you are living, that is part of the old system (pre-Christ).
I live with the understanding that truth is bigger than any religion and the world is God's and everything in it ...
Something is profoundly wrong and we are desperate for justice, for restoration and for somebody somewhere to do something about this.
Freedom is not having everything we crave, it's being able to go without the things we crave and being OK with it.
Because sometimes you need a biologist, and sometimes you need a poet. Sometimes you need a scientist, and sometimes you need a song.
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.
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.
It's important to embrace several truths about yourself and those around you, beginning with this one: who you AREN'T isn't interesting.
The moment God is figured out with nice neat lines and definitions, we are no longer dealing with God.
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.
The fundamental story arc of the Bible is God is passionate about rescuing this world, restoring it, renewing it.
The life that you want begins the moment you embrace the life you have because all of it is a miracle.