Quotes from Rob Bell
I think that at the core of faith is trust.
- Rob Bell
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.
- Rob Bell
I believe that God is love. I believe that Jesus came to show us this love, to give us this love, to teach us about this love, so that we could live in this love and extend it to others.
- Rob Bell
We need to return to the simplicity that God is love.
- Rob Bell
I live with the understanding that truth is bigger than any religion and the world is God's and everything in it.
- Rob Bell
One truth is that suffering raises profound questions with the universe. The other truth is that grace, gift and generosity also raise profound questions.
- Rob Bell
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
The life that you want begins the moment you embrace the life you have because all of it is a miracle.
- Rob Bell
This is misguided and toxic and ultimately subverts the contagious spread of Jesus' message of love, peace, forgiveness and joy that our world desperately needs to hear.
- Rob Bell
Love frees us to embrace all of our history, the history in which all things are being made new.
- Rob Bell
To elevate abstract doctrines and dogmas over living, breathing, embodied experiences of God's love and grace, then, is going the wrong direction. It's taking flesh and turning it back into words.
- Rob Bell
I think that grace and love always rattle people.
- Rob Bell