Rob Bell Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

The vibrant, real historic Christian faith is very wide and leaves lots and lots of room for varying perspectives. It's very diverse and wide, that's part of it's strength, life and vibrancy.

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)

My experience is that lots of people go to church, sing the songs, tell the story, etc but have profound ambivalence about God.

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

The historical orthodox Christian faith is extremely wide and diverse.

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.

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

I am for marriage. I am for fidelity. I am for love, whether it's a man and woman, a woman and a woman, a man and a man.

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.

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.

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

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

Salvation is the entire universe being brought back into harmony with its maker.

Many of the most significant moments in our lives come not because it all went right but because it all fell apart

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

I believe our world desperately needs Good News.

If the gospel isn't good news for everybody, then it isn't good news for anybody.

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.

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

God is bigger than the Christian faith.

The Bible tells a story. A story that isn’t over. A story that is still being told. A story that we have a part to play in.

Your job is the relentless pursuit of who God made you to be. And anything else you do is sin and you need to repent of it.

Whether we are reading the Bible for the first time or standing in a field in Israel next to a historian and an archaeologist and a scholar, the Bible meets us where we are. That is what truth does

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.

If it is true, if it is beautiful, if it is honorable, if it is right, then claim it. Because it is from God. And you belong to God.

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.

We live in the midst of a creation that is groaning.

Questions are not scary. What is scary is when people don’t have any. What is tragic is faith that has no room for them.

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

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

My experience as a pastor is lots of people have really toxic, dangerous, psychologically devastating images of God in their head, images of a God who's not good.

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.

We can choose the way of compassion, the way of forgiveness, the way of generosity. Or we can choose other paths and those have very real consequences in the world. This is absolutely crucial.

The fundamental story arc of the Bible is God is passionate about rescuing this world, restoring it, renewing it.

It's absolutely crucial that we come face to face with the power of our choices.

When we get to what happens when we die, we don't have any video footage. So let's at least be honest that we are speculating, because we are.

Everybody is following somebody. Everybody has faith in something and somebody. We are all believers.

I think that at the core of faith is trust.

Like a mirror, God appears to be more and more a reflection of whoever it is that happens to be talking about God at the moment.

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