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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.

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Rob Bell
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: August 23
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If there's any place where you would express your deepest doubts, it would be church.
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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.
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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.
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When we get to what happens when we die, we don't have any video footage. So let's at least be honest that we are speculating, because we are.
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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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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.
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The thought of the word church and the word marketing in the same sentence makes me sick.
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People have a view of a God who is terrible that they can't even imagine being loving or wanting anything to do with.
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Many people need a new rewiring of their heart and mind.
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There are moments when we have to return to our roots.
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The cross is Gods way of taking away all of our accusations, excuses, and arguments.
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Being a pastor for 20 years I realized that the labels, agnostic, atheist, believer, everybody's human and everybody wants to know what kind of universe we're living in, and everybody's living according to a story.
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God is bigger than the Christian faith.
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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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My interest is in what's true, where is the life, where is the heart and what inspires.
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We embrace truth wherever we find it from whoever says it however we come across it. It's a big beautiful exotic heartbreaking mysterious world we live in and it's our home and we get to explore and learn and affirm truth wherever we find it.
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We all want to make a difference, to live in peace, to have joy each morning that we get to live this day and see what it brings.
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The cross is God taking on flesh and blood and saying, Me too.
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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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One of the oldest aches in the bones of humanity is loneliness. I mean it's one of the things that goes way back loneliness is not good for the world. And so, whoever you are, gay or straight, it is totally normal, natural, and healthy to want somebody to go through life with. It's central to our humanity.
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