Rob Bell Quotes - Page 2

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• opening up your soul to someone, letting them into your spirit, thoughts, fears, future, hopes, dreams ... that is being naked.

  Rob Bell

  Dream, Opening Up, Soul

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• 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

  Song, Profound, People

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• No one has the last word other than God.

  Rob Bell

  Lasts, Last Words

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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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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

  Done, Facts, Too Good To Be True

  Rob Bell (2006). “Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith”, p.146, Harper Collins

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• 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

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• For Jesus, heaven and hell were present realities. Ways of living we can enter into here and now. He talked very little of the life beyond this one.

  Rob Bell

  Jesus, Reality, Heaven

  Rob Bell (2006). “Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith”, p.147, Harper Collins

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• If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship.

  Rob Bell

  Loving Someone, Desire, Serious

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

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• When the female voice is repressed and stifled, the entire community can easily find themselves cut off from the sacred feminine, depriving themselves of the full image of god.

  Rob Bell

  Cutting, Voice, Sacred Feminine

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• 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

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• The world is desperately in need of people who will break themselves open and pour themselves out for the reconciliation of all things- that's what the world needs.

  Rob Bell

  People, Needs, World

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• Suffering is traumatic and awful and we get angry and we shake our fists at the heavens and we vent and rage and weep. But in the process we discover a new tomorrow, one we never would have imagined otherwise.

  Rob Bell

  Heaven, Suffering, Awful

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• Atoms are a relationship of energy. You are a relationship of energy interacting with another person who is another complex relationship of energy. We all exchange more than words with each other. . . We are made of the same substance as rocks and stars. .. We are an exotic cocktail living on this planet. .. We live in this universe which is a self-transcending reality

  Rob Bell

  Stars, Reality, Rocks

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• I have been told that I need to believe in Jesus. Which is a good thing. But what I am learning is that Jesus believes in me.

  Rob Bell

  Jesus, Believe, Needs

  Rob Bell (2013). “The Complete Rob Bell: His Seven Bestselling Books, All in One Place”, p.76, HarperCollins UK

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

  Rob Bell

  Christian, Thinking, Creeds

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• We embrace truth wherever we find it from whoever says it however we come across it. It's a big beautiful exotic heartbreaking mysterious world we live in and it's our home and we get to explore and learn and affirm truth wherever we find it.

  Rob Bell

  Beautiful, Home, Heartbreaking

  Source: missionaryrenegade2013.blogspot.com

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• 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.

  Rob Bell

  Inspire, Soul, Comfort

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

  Rob Bell

  Distracted, Engaged, One Thing

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• Agape doesn't love somebody because they're worthy. Agape makes them worthy by the strength and power of its love. Agape doesn't love somebody because they're beautiful. Agape loves in such a way that it makes them beautiful.

  Rob Bell

  Beautiful, Way, Agape Love

  Rob Bell (2010). “Sex God”, p.86, Harper Collins

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• To say it again, eternal life is less about a kind of time that starts when we die, and more about a quality and vitality of life now in connection to God. Eternal life doesn't start when we die; it starts now. It's not about a life that begins at death; it's about experiencing the kind of life now that can endure and survive even death.

  Rob Bell

  Quality, Vitality, Connections

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• The historical orthodox Christian faith is extremely wide and diverse.

  Rob Bell

  Christian, Historical, Orthodox

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• 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

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• It takes quite a spine to turn the other cheek. It takes phenomenal fortitude to love your enemy. It takes firm resolve to pray for those who persecute you. (with reference to Matthew 5)

  Rob Bell

  Enemy, Praying, Fortitude

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