Latest Rob Bell Quotes from Interviews

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• I believe that God is with you, that there is a presence. I believe this God is for you. I don't think the universe is a cold, dead place that is indifferent.

  Rob Bell

  Believe, Thinking, Cold

  Source: www.pbs.org

• For many people, God is primitive, behind, trying to drag everything back to some prehistoric era as opposed to spirit, force, love, drawing us into a better future, which to me is - that story has done something in me and I've seen it do things in other people.

  Rob Bell

  Drawing, People, Trying

  Source: www.pbs.org

• Being a pastor for 20 years I realized that the labels, agnostic, atheist, believer, everybody's human and everybody wants to know what kind of universe we're living in, and everybody's living according to a story.

  Rob Bell

  Atheist, Years, Want

  Source: www.pbs.org

• And a lot of times, the religious discussion is almost a masquerade for the real question, is what stories that we tell ourselves and that we tell each other and what convictions and beliefs actually have the capacity to make us the kind of people who together can make the world the kind of world we all want it to be?

  Rob Bell

  Religious, Real, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

• 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

  Size, Looks, Strings

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I think what's happened in the modern world, there's a lot of people that sound very smart and it's very compelling and alluring, but it leaves you empty.

  Rob Bell

  Smart, Thinking, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

• What's interesting is, if you take the scientists and the theologians, the really good ones, they end up both filled with this wide-eyed sense of wonder and awe about look at this world we live in.

  Rob Bell

  Interesting, Looks, World

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I thought that Christian was a noun, a person looking for authenticity. I never understood that idea that a band could be Christian or something could be Christian. But it just can be and is.

  Rob Bell

  Christian, Ideas, Band

  Source: www.inlander.com

• I got into pastoring because of the art form. I started a church, but I felt the art form needed to be freed for all people. A particular religion over others was never interesting to me. I wanted to talk to people about what it means to be alive and what it means to be human.

  Rob Bell

  Art, Mean, People

  Source: www.inlander.com

• There's way too much wonder and mystery all around us to not stay open to more that's going on here. You can wake up, and sense and feel and taste and hear a whole world right here within this one, right here in this breath you're about to take.

  Rob Bell

  Wake Up, World, Too Much

• Many in the modern world fell for the myth that we're living in a static, fixed, flat reality of just material things.

  Rob Bell

  Reality, World, Modern

• You can set your intention to better understand your soul, your spirit, through daily practices like prayer, yoga and meditation, etc.

  Rob Bell

  Prayer, Yoga, Practice

• Culture is already there and the church will continue to be even more irrelevant when it quotes letters from two thousand years ago as their best defense. When you have in front of you flesh and blood people who are your brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles, co-workers and neighbors and they love each other and they just want to go through life with someone.

  Rob Bell

  Brother, Uncles, Aunt

  Source: capro.info

• 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

  Nice, Vacation, Car

• The modern world has created airports and hospitals and put 10,000 songs in our pocket. It has built gleaming buildings and computers and advances and innovations that blow our minds. But we have soul, and spirit, and consciousness, and the modern world hasn't done so well at helping us name and understand what it means to be thriving and fully alive with a full heart.

  Rob Bell

  Song, Heart, Mean

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

  Rob Bell

  Breathing, Generosity, Extraordinary

• Before anything else, you have received breath - the gift of life itself. The first word about you is GIFT.

  Rob Bell

  Firsts, Gifts Of Life, Breaths

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

  Rob Bell

  Matter, Life Is, Life Is A Gift

• 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

• 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

• That may sound a big vague, but what has struck me in city after city is that despite our differences and diversity, there's a common humanity we all share. In many ways we're all searching and longing for the same things.

  Rob Bell

  Cities, Differences, Common Humanity

• 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

  Morning, Differences, Joy

• I feel like I've gotten an extraordinary opportunity to experience a sort of collective humanity. If you hug many people in such a short period of days you pick up on a communal energy, almost like feeling a giant heartbeat that everyone is beating together.

  Rob Bell

  Opportunity, People, Feelings

• One of the oldest aches in the bones of humanity is loneliness. I mean it's one of the things that goes way back; loneliness is not good for the world. And so, whoever you are, gay or straight, it is totally normal, natural, and healthy to want somebody to go through life with. It's central to our humanity.

  Rob Bell

  Loneliness, Mean, Gay

  Source: capro.info

• I do a meet and greet after every show in which I tell the audience that I would love to thank every single one of them for coming. Which a lot of people take me up on! So I get to meet hundreds and hundreds of people every night, night after night.

  Rob Bell

  Night, People, Take Me