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You're here, you're breathing, you are the recipient of an extraordinary act of generosity called life.

Rob Bell

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Rob Bell
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: August 23
Author
Non-Fiction Writer
Theologian
Ingham County
Michigan
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Generosity
Breathing
Extraordinary
Called
Life

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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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We're rediscovering Christianity as an Eastern religion, as a way of life.
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The lesson that has been hardest for me to learn: there is nothing to prove.
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We need a childlike trust that God is good... ultimately we are OK. That is a simple, beautiful pure thing that can be complicated ferociously by all sorts of intellectual categories.
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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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Many people confuse religion with God and walk away from them both. The point isn't Christianity, the point is being a Christian.
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Often the people most concerned about others going to hell when they die seem less concerned with the hells on earth right now, while the people most concerned with the hells on earth right now seem the least concerned about hell after death.
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That breath that you just took, that's a gift!
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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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The thought of the word church and the word marketing in the same sentence makes me sick.
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If there's any place where you would express your deepest doubts, it would be church.
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What we do comes out of who we believe we are.
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The hardness of the human heart makes no sense.
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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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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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You can be living in a big house, driving a nice car, going on exotic vacations and still be empty inside, crippled with fear and dread.
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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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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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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.
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The cross is Gods way of taking away all of our accusations, excuses, and arguments.
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