Quote

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

Rob Bell

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Rob Bell
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: August 23
Author
Non-Fiction Writer
Theologian
Ingham County
Michigan
Shapes
Shape

More quotes by Rob Bell

Image
Creating and sharing beautiful things has provided me with the inspiration that we can do things we never thought we could do and that we will get to see wonderful things we never thought we would see.
Rob Bell
Image
To elevate abstract doctrines and dogmas over living, breathing, embodied experiences of God's love and grace, then, is going the wrong direction. It's taking flesh and turning it back into words.
Rob Bell
Image
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.
Rob Bell
Image
People have a view of a God who is terrible that they can't even imagine being loving or wanting anything to do with.
Rob Bell
Image
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.
Rob Bell
Image
God has spoken, and everything else is commentary.
Rob Bell
Image
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.
Rob Bell
Image
We're rediscovering Christianity as an Eastern religion, as a way of life.
Rob Bell
Image
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.
Rob Bell
Image
It takes quite a spine to turn the other cheek. It takes phenomenal fortitude to love your enemy. It takes firm resolve to pray for those who persecute you. (with reference to Matthew 5)
Rob Bell
Image
What we believe about heaven and hell is incredibly important because it exposes what we believe about who God is and what God is like.
Rob Bell
Image
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.
Rob Bell
Image
We need to return to the simplicity that God is love.
Rob Bell
Image
The great German scholar Helmut Thielicke once said that a person who speaks to this hour’s need will always be skirting the edge of heresy, but only the person who risks those heresies can gain the truth.
Rob Bell
Image
God is bigger than the Christian faith.
Rob Bell
Image
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.
Rob Bell
Image
Because with every action, comment, conversation, we have the choice to invite Heaven or Hell to Earth.
Rob Bell
Image
If the gospel isn't good news for everybody, then it isn't good news for anybody.
Rob Bell
Image
The fact that we are loved and accepted and forgiven in spite of everything we have done is simply too good to be true.
Rob Bell
Image
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.
Rob Bell