396 Quotes by Rob Bell

People have a view of a God who is terrible that they can't even imagine being loving or wanting anything to do with.

I get ideas about things I want to make and then I throw myself into it with everything I have.

God then makes people whom he puts right in the middle of all this loaded creation. Commanding them to care for creation, to manage it, to lovingly use it, to creatively order it... They are environmentalists. Being deeply connected with their environment is who they are. For them to be anything else or to deny their divine responsibility to care for all that God has made would be to deny something that is at the core of their existence. This is why litter and pollution are spiritual issues.

People received, affirmed and experienced grace in many different forms.

Our tendency in the midst of suffering is to turn on God. To get angry and bitter and shake our fist at the sky and say, "God, you don't know what it's like! You don't understand! You have no idea what I'm going through. You don't have a clue how much this hurts." The cross is God's way of taking away all of our accusations, excuses, and arguments. The cross is God taking on flesh and blood and saying, "Me too.

Doctrine is a wonderful servant and a horrible master.

The interactions I have are with people who are very kind and very grateful and they say very overwhelming things to me. Somebody who doesn't like what I do or doesn't understand it, then it wasn't for them.

The cross is God taking on flesh and blood and saying, Me too.

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