Quote

Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.

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
Demand
Imagination
Suffering
Turns
Future
Conjured
Demands
Profound
Anymore

More quotes by Rob Bell

Image
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.
Rob Bell
Image
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.
Rob Bell
Image
Many people confuse religion with God and walk away from them both. The point isn't Christianity, the point is being a Christian.
Rob Bell
Image
Because with every action, comment, conversation, we have the choice to invite Heaven or Hell to Earth.
Rob Bell
Image
I believe that God is love. I believe that Jesus came to show us this love, to give us this love, to teach us about this love, so that we could live in this love and extend it to others.
Rob Bell
Image
I think the church needs – I think this is the world we are living in and we need to affirm people wherever they are.
Rob Bell
Image
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.
Rob Bell
Image
You can set your intention to better understand your soul, your spirit, through daily practices like prayer, yoga and meditation, etc.
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
Times change. God doesn’t, but times do. We learn and grow, and the world around us shifts, and the Christian faith is alive only when it is listening, morphing, innovating, letting go of whatever has gotten in the way of Jesus and embracing whatever will help us be more and more the people God wants us to be.
Rob Bell
Image
The Christian faith is mysterious to the core. It is about things and beings that ultimately can't be put into words. Language fails. And if we do definitively put God into words, we have at that very moment made God something God is not.
Rob Bell
Image
My interest is in what's true, where is the life, where is the heart and what inspires.
Rob Bell
Image
The moment God is figured out with nice neat lines and definitions, we are no longer dealing with God.
Rob Bell
Image
The life you want begins by embracing the life you have.
Rob Bell
Image
Christian' makes a poor adjective
Rob Bell
Image
God is bigger than the Christian faith.
Rob Bell
Image
At the center of the Christian tradition since the first church have been a number who insist that history is not tragic, hell is not forever, and love, in the end, wins and all will be reconciled to God.
Rob Bell
Image
It often appears that those who talk the most about going to heaven when you die talk the least about bringing heaven to earth right now, as Jesus taught us to pray: 'Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.' At the same time, it often appears that those who talk the most about relieving suffering now talk the least about heaven when we die.
Rob Bell
Image
God has spoken, and everything else is commentary.
Rob Bell
Image
People received, affirmed and experienced grace in many different forms.
Rob Bell