396 Quotes by Rob Bell

My experience is that lots of people go to church, sing the songs, tell the story, etc but have profound ambivalence about God.

Many people confuse religion with God and walk away from them both. The point isn't Christianity, the point is being a Christian.

The first word about you is that you received this life...

I am for marriage. I am for fidelity. I am for love, whether it's a man and woman, a woman and a woman, a man and a man.

That breath that you just took, that's a gift!

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.

If your faith is threatened by something that's true, then it wasn't much of a faith to begin with, was it?

It is trusting that I am loved. That I always have been. That I always will be. I don't have to do anything. I don't have to prove anything, or achieve anything, or accomplish one more thing. That, exactly as I am, I am totally accepted, forgiven, and there is nothing I could ever do to lose this acceptance.

To make it really clear and simple, let's call this movement across history we see in passages like the ones we just looked at from Exodus and Deuteronomy clicks. What we see is God meeting people at the click they're at, and then drawing them forward.When they're at F, God calls them to G.When we're at L, God calls us to M.And if we're way back there at A, God meets us way back there at A and does what God always does: invites us forward to B.