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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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Non-Fiction Writer
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Ingham County
Michigan
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Celebrity seems totally at odds with authentic community and honest, real sorts of relationships.
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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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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.
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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.
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The world is desperately in need of people who will break themselves open and pour themselves out for the reconciliation of all things- that's what the world needs.
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A good sermon is going to disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed. It inspires you. It provokes you. It should make your soul soar.
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That may sound a big vague, but what has struck me in city after city is that despite our differences and diversity, there's a common humanity we all share. In many ways we're all searching and longing for the same things.
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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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It is better to be fully present and rested and engaged for one thing than rushed, distracted, and scattered for ten.
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The lesson that has been hardest for me to learn: there is nothing to prove.
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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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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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You're here, you're breathing, you are the recipient of an extraordinary act of generosity called life.
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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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If the gospel isn't good news for everybody, then it isn't good news for anybody.
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