Rob Bell Quotes About Jesus

Quotes about: Jesus

• 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

• 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

• 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

• If anybody didn't have a messiah complex, it was Jesus.

  Rob Bell

  Jesus, Godly, Messiah

  Rob Bell (2006). “Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith”, p.169, Harper Collins

• 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.

• The cross is God taking on flesh and blood and saying, Me too.

  Rob Bell

  Jesus, Blood, Flesh

  Rob Bell (2010). “Sex God”, p.76, Harper Collins

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• You can be very religious and invoke the name of God and be able to quote lots of verses and be well versed in complicated theological systems and yet not be a person who sees. It’s one thing to sing about God and recite quotes about God and invoke God’s name; it’s another be aware of the presence in every taste, touch, sound, and embrace. With Jesus, what we see again and again is that it’s never just a person, or just a meal, or just an event, because there’s always more going on just below the surface.

  Rob Bell

  Religious, Jesus, Names

• 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'm interested in painting the most beautifully compelling pictures and images and metaphors and stories and explanations possible that will put Jesus in language for a world that desperately needs to hear it.

  Rob Bell

  Jesus, Needs, Stories

  "The Heretical Rob Bell and Why Love Wins" by Cathleen Falsani, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 14, 2011.

• 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

• 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

• The cross is Gods way of taking away all of our accusations, excuses, and arguments.

  Rob Bell

  Jesus, Way, Argument

  Rob Bell (2010). “Sex God”, p.76, Harper Collins

• Swords appear strong, but they're actually quite weak. Jesus appears weak, but he's actually quite strong.

  Rob Bell

  Jesus, Strong, Weak

• When people use the word hell, what do they mean? They mean a place, an event, a situation absent of how God desires things to be. Famine, debt, oppression, loneliness, despair, death, slaughter--they are all hell on earth. Jesus' desire for his followers is that they live in such a way that they bring heaven to earth. What's disturbing is when people talk more about hell after this life than they do about Hell here and now. As a Christian, I want to do what I can to resist hell coming to earth.

  Rob Bell

  Christian, Jesus, Loneliness

• A lot of Christians have been taught a story that begins in chapter 3 of Genesis, instead of chapter 1. If your story doesn't begin in the beginning, but begins in chapter 3, then it starts with sin, and so the story becomes about dealing with the sin problem. So Jesus is seen as primarily dealing with our sins.

  Rob Bell

  Christian, Jesus, Stories

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

• 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

• So this is reality, this forgiveness, this reconciliation, is true for everybody. Paul insisted that when Jesus died on the cross, he was reconciling "all things, in heaven and on earth, to God." All things, everywhere. ...This reality then isn't something we make come true about ourselves by doing something. It is already true. Our choice is to live in this new reality or cling to a reality of our own making.

  Rob Bell

  Jesus, Reality, Choices

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

• In one of the accounts of Jesus's death we read that the curtain in the temple of God-the one that kept people out of the holiest place of God's presence-ripped.One New Testament writer said that this ripping was a picture of how, because of Jesus, we can have new, direct access to God.A beautiful idea.But the curtain ripping also means that God comes out, that God is no longer confined to the temple as God was previously.

  Rob Bell

  Beautiful, Jesus, Mean

• And this reality extends beyond this life. Heaven is full of forgiven people. Hell is full of forgiven people. Heaven is full of people God loves, whom Jesus died for. Hell is full of forgiven people God loves, whom Jesus died for. The difference is how we choose to live, which story we choose to live in, which version of reality we trust.

  Rob Bell

  Jesus, Reality, Differences

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

• If this understanding of the good news of Jesus prevailed among Christians, the belief that Jesus’s message is about how to get somewhere else, you could possibly end up with a world in which millions of people were starving, thirsty, and poor; the earth was being exploited and polluted; disease and despair were everywhere; and Christians weren’t known for doing much about it. If it got bad enough, you might even have people rejecting Jesus because of how his followers lived. That would be tragic.

  Rob Bell

  Christian, Jesus, Somewhere Else

  Rob Bell (2011). “Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived”, p.11, Harper Collins

• To be honest with you, I am passionate about all the people out there who want to know Jesus, they want to know God, and they are sick of a system that is hung up on a bunch of things that have nothing to do with the love of God.

  Rob Bell

  Jesus, People, Sick

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