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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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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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I'm very comfortable in a room with thousands of people.
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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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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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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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Christian' makes a poor adjective
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I believe God gives people the right to say no, to resist, to refuse, to reject, to cling to their sins, to cling to their version of their story.
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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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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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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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The life that you want begins the moment you embrace the life you have because all of it is a miracle.
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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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Celebrity seems totally at odds with authentic community and honest, real sorts of relationships.
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When we deny the spiritual dimension to our existence, we end up living like animals. And when we deny the physical, sexual dimension to our existence, we end up living like angels. And both ways are destructive, because God made us human.
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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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Your deepest, darkest sins and your shameful secrets are simply irrelevant when it comes to the counterintuitive, ecstatic announcement of the gospel. So are your goodness, your rightness, your church attendance, and all of the wise, moral, mature decisions you have made and actions you have taken.
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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.
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What we do comes out of who we believe we are.
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Many people need a new rewiring of their heart and mind.
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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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