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The historical orthodox Christian faith is extremely wide and diverse.

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Rob Bell
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: August 23
Author
Non-Fiction Writer
Theologian
Ingham County
Michigan
Diverse
Extremely
Historical
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Christian
Orthodox

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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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We all want to make a difference, to live in peace, to have joy each morning that we get to live this day and see what it brings.
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You can set your intention to better understand your soul, your spirit, through daily practices like prayer, yoga and meditation, etc.
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The lesson that has been hardest for me to learn: there is nothing to prove.
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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 first word about you is that you received this life.
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I think that at the core of faith is trust.
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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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There's nothing wrong with possessions it's just that they have value to us only when we use them, engage them, and enjoy them. They're nouns that mean something only in conjunction with verbs. That's why wealth is so dangerous: if you're not careful you can easily end up with a garage full of nouns.
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Something is profoundly wrong and we are desperate for justice, for restoration and for somebody somewhere to do something about this.
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The world is desperately in need of people who will break themselves open and pour themselves out for the reconciliation of all things- that's what the world needs.
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It's as if Thomas Kinkade and Dante were at a party, and one turned to the other sometime after midnight and uttered that classic line You know, we really should work together sometime.
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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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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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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.
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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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There are moments when we have to return to our roots.
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I'm very comfortable in a room with thousands of people.
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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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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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