Rob Bell Quotes

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• When you forgive somebody, when you are generous, when you withhold judgment, when you love and when you stand up to injustice, you are, in that moment, bringing heaven to earth.

  Rob Bell

  Love, Inspirational, Forgiveness

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• Love is what God is, love is why Jesus came, and love is why he continues to come, year after year to person after person...May you experience this vast, expansive, infinite, indestructible love that has been yours all along. May you discover that this love is as wide as the sky and as small as the cracks in your heart no one else knows about, and may you know, deep in your bones, that love wins.

  Rob Bell

  Jesus, Heart, Winning

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• If the gospel isn't good news for everybody, then it isn't good news for anybody. And this is because the most powerful things happen when the church surrenders its desire to convert people and convince them to join. It is when the church gives itself away in radical acts of service and compassion, expecting nothing in return, that the way of Jesus is most vividly put on display.

  Rob Bell

  Jesus, Powerful, Compassion

  Rob Bell (2006). “Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith”, p.167, Harper Collins

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• This breath, and this moment, and this life is a gift and we are all in this together. We all have countless choices every day to close down or stand up straight and open up, and take a big breath and say YES to the gift.

  Rob Bell

  Choices, Together, Life Is

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• Times change. God doesn’t, but times do. We learn and grow, and the world around us shifts, and the Christian faith is alive only when it is listening, morphing, innovating, letting go of whatever has gotten in the way of Jesus and embracing whatever will help us be more and more the people God wants us to be.

  Rob Bell

  Change, God, Faith

  FaceBook post by Rob Bell from Jul 15, 2012

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• 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

  Dark, Light, Deep Thought

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• Take faith, for example. For many people in our world, the opposite of faith is doubt. The goal, then, within this understanding, is to eliminate doubt. But faith and doubt aren't opposites. Doubt is often a sign that your faith has a pulse, that it's alive and well and exploring and searching. Faith and doubt aren't opposites, they are, it turns out, excellent dance partners.

  Rob Bell

  Our World, Opposites, People

  "The Gift of Doubt" by Shea Watts, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 4, 2015.

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  What we do comes out of who we believe we are.

  Rob Bell

  Believe

  Rob Bell (2010). “Sex God”, p.87, Harper Collins

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• It is trusting that I am loved. That I always have been. That I always will be. I don't have to do anything. I don't have to prove anything, or achieve anything, or accomplish one more thing. That, exactly as I am, I am totally accepted, forgiven, and there is nothing I could ever do to lose this acceptance.

  Rob Bell

  Acceptance, Accepted, Achieve

  Rob Bell (2006). “Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith”, p.151, Harper Collins

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• That breath that you just took, that's a gift!

  Rob Bell

  Breaths

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• I would say that the powerful, revolutionary thing about Jesus' message is that he says, 'What do you do with the people that aren't like you? What do you do with the Other? What do you do with the person that's hardest to love?' . . . That's the measure of a good religion, is - you can love the people who are just like you; that's kind of easy. So what Jesus does is takes the question and talks about fruit. He's interested in what you actually produce. And that's a different discussion. How do we love the people in the world that are least like us?

  Rob Bell

  Jesus, Powerful, People

  "Rob Bell Comes Out for Marriage Equality" by Greg Carey, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2013.

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

  Rob Bell

  Christian, Religious, Choices

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

  Rob Bell

  God, Faith, Jesus

  Rob Bell (2006). “Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith”, p.25, Harper Collins

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

  Rob Bell

  Inspiring, Miracle, Want

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• What is God like? Because millions and millions of people were taught that the primary message - the center of the Gospel of Jesus - is that God is going to send you to hell, unless you believe in Jesus. And so, what gets, subtlely, sort of caught and taught is that Jesus rescues you from God. But what kind of God is that; that we would need to be rescued from this God? How could that God ever be good; how could that God ever be trusted? And how could that ever be good news.

  Rob Bell

  Jesus, Believe, People

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• The peace we are offered is not a peace that is free from tragedy, illness, bankruptcy, divorce, depression, or heartache. It is peace rooted in the trust that the life Jesus gives us is deeper, wider, stronger, and more enduring than whatever our current circumstances are, because all we see is not all there is and the last word about us and our struggle has not yet been spoken.

  Rob Bell

  Jesus, Struggle, Divorce

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• Grace is when you know you're loved exactly as you are.

  Rob Bell

  Grace, Knows

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• Jesus is bigger than any one religion. He didn't come to start a new religion, and he continually disrupted whatever conventions or systems or establishments that existed in his day. He will always transcend whatever cages and labels are created to contain and name him, especially the one called "Christianity.

  Rob Bell

  Jesus, Names, Cages

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• The life you want begins by embracing the life you have.

  Rob Bell

  Inspiring, Want

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• I believe that God is love. I believe that Jesus came to show us this love, to give us this love, to teach us about this love, so that we could live in this love and extend it to others.

  Rob Bell

  Jesus, Believe, Giving

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• 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, Significant, Our Lives

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• When I talk about the God who is with us, for us, and ahead of us, I'm talking about our facing that which most terrifies us about ourselves, embracing it and fearing it no longer, refusing to allow it to exist separate from the rest of our being, resting assured that we are loved and we belong and we are going to be just fine.

  Rob Bell

  Talking, Fine, Assured

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• Fear wants us to become obsessed with some event or person in the future, a year, a month, even a day. It also wants us to look backwards not at our successes, but our short-comings and our failures. Fear losses it's grip when we stay in the now.

  Rob Bell

  Loss, Years, Events

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• 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

  Atheist, Believe, Don't Believe

  Rob Bell (2011). “Love Wins: At the Heart of Life’s Big Questions”, p.8, HarperCollins UK

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• Some communities don't permit open, honest inquiry about the things that matter most. Lots of people have voiced a concern, expressed a doubt, or raised a question, only to be told by their family, church, friends, or tribe: "We don't discuss those things here." I believe the discussion itself is divine. Abraham does his best to bargain with God, most of the book of Job consists of arguments by Job and his friends about the deepest questions of human suffering, God is practically on trial in the book of Lamentations, and Jesus responds to almost every question he's asked with...a question.

  Rob Bell

  Jesus, Jobs, Believe

  Rob Bell (2011). “Love Wins: At the Heart of Life’s Big Questions”, p.4, HarperCollins UK

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