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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.

Rob Bell

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Rob Bell
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: August 23
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Ingham County
Michigan
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If your faith is threatened by something that's true, then it wasn't much of a faith to begin with, was it?
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When someone sets out to be controversial or provocative or shocking as an end in itself, I don't think that's a noble goal.
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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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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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The moment God is figured out with nice neat lines and definitions, we are no longer dealing with God.
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People received, affirmed and experienced grace in many different forms.
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The great German scholar Helmut Thielicke once said that a person who speaks to this hour’s need will always be skirting the edge of heresy, but only the person who risks those heresies can gain the truth.
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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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