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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.

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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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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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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Sociologically, large groups of people don't generally have massive changes in their belief instantaneously.
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Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.
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You can be living in a big house, driving a nice car, going on exotic vacations and still be empty inside, crippled with fear and dread.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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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're here, you're breathing, you are the recipient of an extraordinary act of generosity called life.
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I'm interested in painting the most beautifully compelling pictures and images and metaphors and stories and explanations possible that will put Jesus in language for a world that desperately needs to hear it.
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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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