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God has spoken, and everything else is commentary.

Rob Bell

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Rob Bell
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: August 23
Author
Non-Fiction Writer
Theologian
Ingham County
Michigan
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Spoken
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Everything

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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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My experience is that lots of people go to church, sing the songs, tell the story, etc but have profound ambivalence about God.
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The first word about you is that you received this life.
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This breath, and this moment, and this life is a gift and we are all in this together. We all have countless choices every day to close down or stand up straight and open up, and take a big breath and say YES to the gift.
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You can set your intention to better understand your soul, your spirit, through daily practices like prayer, yoga and meditation, etc.
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The interactions I have are with people who are very kind and very grateful and they say very overwhelming things to me. Somebody who doesn't like what I do or doesn't understand it, then it wasn't for them.
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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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Many people need a new rewiring of their heart and mind.
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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.
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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.
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That may sound a big vague, but what has struck me in city after city is that despite our differences and diversity, there's a common humanity we all share. In many ways we're all searching and longing for the same things.
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At the center of the Christian tradition since the first church have been a number who insist that history is not tragic, hell is not forever, and love, in the end, wins and all will be reconciled to God.
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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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I think the church needs – I think this is the world we are living in and we need to affirm people wherever they are.
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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.
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Because with every action, comment, conversation, we have the choice to invite Heaven or Hell to Earth.
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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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It's as if Thomas Kinkade and Dante were at a party, and one turned to the other sometime after midnight and uttered that classic line You know, we really should work together sometime.
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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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Sociologically, large groups of people don't generally have massive changes in their belief instantaneously.
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