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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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Non-Fiction Writer
Theologian
Ingham County
Michigan
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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.
Rob Bell
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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.
Rob Bell
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My interest is in what's true, where is the life, where is the heart and what inspires.
Rob Bell
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I believe God gives people the right to say no, to resist, to refuse, to reject, to cling to their sins, to cling to their version of their story.
Rob Bell
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If there's any place where you would express your deepest doubts, it would be church.
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The life you want begins by embracing the life you have.
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I am for marriage. I am for fidelity. I am for love, whether it's a man and woman, a woman and a woman, a man and a man.
Rob Bell
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If the gospel isn't good news for everybody, then it isn't good news for anybody.
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The hardness of the human heart makes no sense.
Rob Bell
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My experience is that lots of people go to church, sing the songs, tell the story, etc but have profound ambivalence about God.
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We shape our God, and then our God shapes us.
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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
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Creating and sharing beautiful things has provided me with the inspiration that we can do things we never thought we could do and that we will get to see wonderful things we never thought we would see.
Rob Bell
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To be honest with you, I am passionate about all the people out there who want to know Jesus, they want to know God, and they are sick of a system that is hung up on a bunch of things that have nothing to do with the love of God.
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There's way too much wonder and mystery all around us to not stay open to more that's going on here. You can wake up, and sense and feel and taste and hear a whole world right here within this one, right here in this breath you're about to take.
Rob Bell
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When we deny the spiritual dimension to our existence, we end up living like animals. And when we deny the physical, sexual dimension to our existence, we end up living like angels. And both ways are destructive, because God made us human.
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We need to return to the simplicity that God is love.
Rob Bell
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We're rediscovering Christianity as an Eastern religion, as a way of life.
Rob Bell
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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.
Rob Bell
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Why blame the dark for being dark? It is far more helpful to ask why the light isn’t as bright as it could be.
Rob Bell