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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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Everything
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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.
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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.
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Something is profoundly wrong and we are desperate for justice, for restoration and for somebody somewhere to do something about this.
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The hardness of the human heart makes no sense.
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If your faith is threatened by something that's true, then it wasn't much of a faith to begin with, was it?
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We embrace truth wherever we find it from whoever says it however we come across it. It's a big beautiful exotic heartbreaking mysterious world we live in and it's our home and we get to explore and learn and affirm truth wherever we find it.
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Fear wants us to become obsessed with some event or person in the future, a year, a month, even a day. It also wants us to look backwards not at our successes, but our short-comings and our failures. Fear losses it's grip when we stay in the now.
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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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My interest is in what's true, where is the life, where is the heart and what inspires.
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Times change. God doesn’t, but times do. We learn and grow, and the world around us shifts, and the Christian faith is alive only when it is listening, morphing, innovating, letting go of whatever has gotten in the way of Jesus and embracing whatever will help us be more and more the people God wants us to be.
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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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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.
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You turn the light on, you get all kinds of bugs.
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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 cross is God taking on flesh and blood and saying, Me too.
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It's absolutely crucial that we come face to face with the power of our choices.
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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.
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Christian' makes a poor adjective
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We need to return to the simplicity that God is love.
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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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