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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.

Rob Bell

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Rob Bell
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: August 23
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Ingham County
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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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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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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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The lesson that has been hardest for me to learn: there is nothing to prove.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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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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When the lab rats hear the bell ringing, they freeze. That's what fear does to you - fear stops you dead in your tracks. Fear can keep you from harm, but fear can also rob you of your potential. Fear can rob you of an experience. Fear can rob you of happiness. Fear can rob you of real life... Darkness has a way of scaring us.
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God is bigger than the Christian faith.
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The life that you want begins the moment you embrace the life you have because all of it is a miracle.
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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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The danger is that in reaction to abuses and distortions of an idea, we'll reject it completely. And in the process miss out on the good of it, the worth of it, the truth of it.
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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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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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Celebrity seems totally at odds with authentic community and honest, real sorts of relationships.
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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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What we believe about heaven and hell is incredibly important because it exposes what we believe about who God is and what God is like.
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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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