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God is bigger than the Christian faith.

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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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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Often the people most concerned about others going to hell when they die seem less concerned with the hells on earth right now, while the people most concerned with the hells on earth right now seem the least concerned about hell after death.
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You turn the light on, you get all kinds of bugs.
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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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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 believe that God is with you, that there is a presence. I believe this God is for you. I don't think the universe is a cold, dead place that is indifferent.
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The fact that we are loved and accepted and forgiven in spite of everything we have done is simply too good to be true.
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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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The moment God is figured out with nice neat lines and definitions, we are no longer dealing with God.
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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 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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If there's any place where you would express your deepest doubts, it would be church.
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Being a pastor for 20 years I realized that the labels, agnostic, atheist, believer, everybody's human and everybody wants to know what kind of universe we're living in, and everybody's living according to a story.
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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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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 lesson that has been hardest for me to learn: there is nothing to prove.
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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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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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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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