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What we do comes out of who we believe we are.

Rob Bell

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Rob Bell
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: August 23
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Non-Fiction Writer
Theologian
Ingham County
Michigan
Comes
Believe

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It often appears that those who talk the most about going to heaven when you die talk the least about bringing heaven to earth right now, as Jesus taught us to pray: 'Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.' At the same time, it often appears that those who talk the most about relieving suffering now talk the least about heaven when we die.
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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.
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If there's any place where you would express your deepest doubts, it would be church.
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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.
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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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I'm very comfortable in a room with thousands of people.
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Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.
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And this reality extends beyond this life. Heaven is full of forgiven people. Hell is full of forgiven people. Heaven is full of people God loves, whom Jesus died for. Hell is full of forgiven people God loves, whom Jesus died for. The difference is how we choose to live, which story we choose to live in, which version of reality we trust.
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Agape doesn't love somebody because they're worthy. Agape makes them worthy by the strength and power of its love. Agape doesn't love somebody because they're beautiful. Agape loves in such a way that it makes them beautiful.
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We need a childlike trust that God is good... ultimately we are OK. That is a simple, beautiful pure thing that can be complicated ferociously by all sorts of intellectual categories.
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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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The hardness of the human heart makes no sense.
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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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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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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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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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Like a mirror, God appears to be more and more a reflection of whoever it is that happens to be talking about God at the moment.
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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're here, you're breathing, you are the recipient of an extraordinary act of generosity called life.
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I think that at the core of faith is trust.
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