Rob Bell Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• 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

• 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

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

  Rob Bell

  Dream, Jesus, Giving Up

  Rob Bell (2006). “Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith”, p.157, Harper Collins

• Love is giving up control. It’s surrendering the desire to control the other person. The two—love and controlling power over the other person—are mutually exclusive. If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship.

  Rob Bell

  Sex, Giving Up, Love Is

  Rob Bell (2010). “Sex God”, p.70, Harper Collins

• Missions then is less about the transportation of God from one place to another and more about the identification of a God who is already there [...] You see God where others don't. And then you point him out. So the issue isn't so much taking Jesus to people who don't have him, but going to a place and pointing out to the people the creative, life-giving God who is already present in their midst.

  Rob Bell

  Jesus, Issues, People

• 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

• Your life is a gift. Before anything else can be said about you, for some reason the universe (or God, or being, or force, or reality, or whatever you name it) chose to give you life.

  Rob Bell

  Reality, Names, Giving

• 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

  Believe, People, Giving

• For many, 'desire' is a bad word, something we're supposed to 'give up for God.' That kind of thinking can be really destructive because it teaches people to deny their hearts, their true selves.

  Rob Bell

  Giving Up, Heart, Thinking

  "Hello, Rob Bell - The Interview". Interview with Skye Jethani, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 1, 2012.

• You want people who are both great fans and supporters and believers of your work and people who are also ruthlessly honest. People who will tell you the truth about it. Over the years I've picked up some friends and I know who to show what to and they'll give me the proper read.

  Rob Bell

  Years, People, Giving

  "Writer Talk: An Interview With Rob Bell on Writing and Creativity". Interview With Chris Dikes, thisischrisdikes.wordpress.com. September 18, 2013.

• God gives us what we want. For people who want nothing to do with peace, joy, reconciliation and peace... God will give you what you want. I see people make unbelievably destructive choices.

  Rob Bell

  Giving, People, Joy

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