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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

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Rob Bell
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: August 23
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Ingham County
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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 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.
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Suffering is traumatic and awful and we get angry and we shake our fists at the heavens and we vent and rage and weep. But in the process we discover a new tomorrow, one we never would have imagined otherwise.
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To be honest with you, I am passionate about all the people out there who want to know Jesus, they want to know God, and they are sick of a system that is hung up on a bunch of things that have nothing to do with the love of God.
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This breath, and this moment, and this life is a gift and we are all in this together. We all have countless choices every day to close down or stand up straight and open up, and take a big breath and say YES to the gift.
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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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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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If the gospel isn't good news for everybody, then it isn't good news for anybody.
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The life you want begins by embracing the life you have.
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To me some of the greatest writing is when somebody puts something in words that you felt and experienced and you go, that's it.
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Many people need a new rewiring of their heart and mind.
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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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Christian' makes a poor adjective
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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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