Quote

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.

Rob Bell

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Rob Bell
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: August 23
Author
Non-Fiction Writer
Theologian
Ingham County
Michigan
Giving
Reconciliation
Make
Destructive
People
Gives
Joy
Choices
Peace
Give
Nothing
Unbelievably

More quotes by Rob Bell

Image
A lot of Christians have been taught a story that begins in chapter 3 of Genesis, instead of chapter 1. If your story doesn't begin in the beginning, but begins in chapter 3, then it starts with sin, and so the story becomes about dealing with the sin problem. So Jesus is seen as primarily dealing with our sins.
Rob Bell
Image
The life you want begins by embracing the life you have.
Rob Bell
Image
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.
Rob Bell
Image
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.
Rob Bell
Image
We can choose the way of compassion, the way of forgiveness, the way of generosity. Or we can choose other paths and those have very real consequences in the world. This is absolutely crucial.
Rob Bell
Image
My experience is that lots of people go to church, sing the songs, tell the story, etc but have profound ambivalence about God.
Rob Bell
Image
God is bigger than the Christian faith.
Rob Bell
Image
The historical orthodox Christian faith is extremely wide and diverse.
Rob Bell
Image
I think that at the core of faith is trust.
Rob Bell
Image
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.
Rob Bell
Image
The cross is God taking on flesh and blood and saying, Me too.
Rob Bell
Image
The Christian faith is mysterious to the core. It is about things and beings that ultimately can't be put into words. Language fails. And if we do definitively put God into words, we have at that very moment made God something God is not.
Rob Bell
Image
If the gospel isn't good news for everybody, then it isn't good news for anybody.
Rob Bell
Image
The first word about you is that you received this life.
Rob Bell
Image
Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.
Rob Bell
Image
That breath that you just took, that's a gift!
Rob Bell
Image
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
Image
Look at the size of the universe and look at what we're discovering about string theory. There's a wide-eyed sense of we're just getting started here.
Rob Bell
Image
If your faith is threatened by something that's true, then it wasn't much of a faith to begin with, was it?
Rob Bell
Image
What does happen constantly with all kinds of people I meet is they say I had this encounter with Jesus, can you help me understand it... The labels, more than ever, simply aren't big enough to contain what the cosmic Christ is up to in the world.
Rob Bell