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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
Author
Non-Fiction Writer
Theologian
Ingham County
Michigan
Scary
Questions
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