Quotes from Rob Bell
The vibrant, real historic Christian faith is very wide and leaves lots and lots of room for varying perspectives. It's very diverse and wide, that's part of it's strength, life and vibrancy.
- Rob Bell
Before anything else, you have received breath - the gift of life itself. The first word about you is GIFT.
- Rob Bell
We're rediscovering Christianity as an Eastern religion, as a way of life.
- Rob Bell
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.
- Rob Bell
Over the years, I've realized that I have as much in common with the performance artist, the standup comedian, the screenwriter, as I do with the theologian. I'm in an odd world where I make things and share them with people.
- Rob Bell
The first word about you is that you received this life.
- Rob Bell
It often takes suffering and lost in order to remind us of how precious life is.
- Rob Bell
Whether we are reading the Bible for the first time or standing in a field in Israel next to a historian and an archaeologist and a scholar, the Bible meets us where we are. That is what truth does
- Rob Bell
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.
- Rob Bell
Any time someone makes you feel guilty about how you are living, that is part of the old system (pre-Christ).
- Rob Bell
It takes quite a spine to turn the other cheek. It takes phenomenal fortitude to love your enemy. It takes firm resolve to pray for those who persecute you. (with reference to Matthew 5)
- Rob Bell
Celebrity seems totally at odds with authentic community and honest, real sorts of relationships.
- Rob Bell