Rob Bell Quotes
The danger is that in reaction to abuses and distortions of an idea, we'll reject it completely. And in the process miss out on the good of it, the worth of it, the truth of it.
When someone sets out to be controversial or provocative or shocking as an end in itself, I don't think that's a noble goal.
Something is profoundly wrong and we are desperate for justice, for restoration and for somebody somewhere to do something about this.
To me some of the greatest writing is when somebody puts something in words that you felt and experienced and you go, that's it.
I get ideas about things I want to make and then I throw myself into it with everything I have.
Many in the modern world fell for the myth that we're living in a static, fixed, flat reality of just material things.
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.
Sociologically, large groups of people don't generally have massive changes in their belief instantaneously.
The joy is in the creation. So I've never had a target audience, it's always been about being true to the work as it emerges.
People have a view of a God who is terrible that they can't even imagine being loving or wanting anything to do with.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
If anybody didn't have a messiah complex, it was Jesus
because God has spoken, and everything else is commentary.
God is always present. We’re the ones who show up.
God is in the best, and also the worst. God is in the presence, and also in the absence. God is in the power, and also in the powerlessness.
...Jesus responds to almost every question he's asked with...a question."What do you think? How do you read it?" he asks, again and again and again.
