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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.

Rob Bell

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Rob Bell
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: August 23
Author
Non-Fiction Writer
Theologian
Ingham County
Michigan
Claim
Belong
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True
Beautiful
Right
Honorable

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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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My interest is in what's true, where is the life, where is the heart and what inspires.
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We shape our God, and then our God shapes us.
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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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The Christian faith is mysterious to the core. It is about things and beings that ultimately can't be put into words. Language fails. And if we do definitively put God into words, we have at that very moment made God something God is not.
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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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When someone wrongs us, we rarely (if ever) want to do the same thing back. Why? Because we want to do something more harmful. Likewise, when someone insults us, our instinct is to search for words that will be more insulting.Revenge always escalates.
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I have been told that I need to believe in Jesus. Which is a good thing. But what I am learning is that Jesus believes in me.
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Many people need a new rewiring of their heart and mind.
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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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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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The life you want begins by embracing the life you have.
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Your job is the relentless pursuit of who God made you to be. And anything else you do is sin and you need to repent of it.
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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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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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The moment God is figured out with nice neat lines and definitions, we are no longer dealing with God.
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Look at the size of the universe and look at what we're discovering about string theory. There's a wide-eyed sense of we're just getting started here.
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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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