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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.

Rob Bell

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Rob Bell
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: August 23
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Non-Fiction Writer
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Ingham County
Michigan
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To elevate abstract doctrines and dogmas over living, breathing, embodied experiences of God's love and grace, then, is going the wrong direction. It's taking flesh and turning it back into words.
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Many people confuse religion with God and walk away from them both. The point isn't Christianity, the point is being a Christian.
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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.
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If the gospel isn't good news for everybody, then it isn't good news for anybody.
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The great German scholar Helmut Thielicke once said that a person who speaks to this hour’s need will always be skirting the edge of heresy, but only the person who risks those heresies can gain the truth.
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Salvation is the entire universe being brought back into harmony with its maker.
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People have a view of a God who is terrible that they can't even imagine being loving or wanting anything to do with.
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When the lab rats hear the bell ringing, they freeze. That's what fear does to you - fear stops you dead in your tracks. Fear can keep you from harm, but fear can also rob you of your potential. Fear can rob you of an experience. Fear can rob you of happiness. Fear can rob you of real life... Darkness has a way of scaring us.
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When someone wrongs us, we rarely (if ever) want to do the same thing back. Why? Because we want to do something more harmful. Likewise, when someone insults us, our instinct is to search for words that will be more insulting.Revenge always escalates.
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The life you want begins by embracing the life you have.
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Many people need a new rewiring of their heart and mind.
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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.
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Christian' makes a poor adjective
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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.
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I like to say that I practice militant mysticism. I'm really absolutely sure of some things that I don't quite know.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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What we believe about heaven and hell is incredibly important because it exposes what we believe about who God is and what God is like.
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