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We shape our God, and then our God shapes us.

Rob Bell

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Rob Bell
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: August 23
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Non-Fiction Writer
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Ingham County
Michigan
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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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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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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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Many people need a new rewiring of their heart and mind.
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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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At the center of the Christian tradition since the first church have been a number who insist that history is not tragic, hell is not forever, and love, in the end, wins and all will be reconciled to God.
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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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I think that at the core of faith is trust.
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Celebrity seems totally at odds with authentic community and honest, real sorts of relationships.
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Questions are not scary. What is scary is when people don’t have any. What is tragic is faith that has no room for them.
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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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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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The hardness of the human heart makes no sense.
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I believe that God is love. I believe that Jesus came to show us this love, to give us this love, to teach us about this love, so that we could live in this love and extend it to others.
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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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You're here, you're breathing, you are the recipient of an extraordinary act of generosity called life.
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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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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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What we do comes out of who we believe we are.
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