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You turn the light on, you get all kinds of bugs.

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
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Suffering is traumatic and awful and we get angry and we shake our fists at the heavens and we vent and rage and weep. But in the process we discover a new tomorrow, one we never would have imagined otherwise.
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There are moments when we have to return to our roots.
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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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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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I think that at the core of faith is trust.
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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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The thought of the word church and the word marketing in the same sentence makes me sick.
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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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We can choose the way of compassion, the way of forgiveness, the way of generosity. Or we can choose other paths and those have very real consequences in the world. This is absolutely crucial.
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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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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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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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We need to return to the simplicity that God is love.
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If it is true, if it is beautiful, if it is honorable, if it is right, then claim it. Because it is from God. And you belong to God.
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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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God is bigger than the Christian faith.
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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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Because with every action, comment, conversation, we have the choice to invite Heaven or Hell to Earth.
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