396 Quotes by Rob Bell

Far too often, we don’t start because we can’t get our minds around the entire thing. We don’t take the first step because we can’t figure out the seventeenth step. But you don’t have to know the seventeenth step. You only have to know the first step. Because the first number is always 1. Start with 1.

I can’t find one place in the teachings of Jesus, or the Bible for that matter, where we are to identity ourselves first and foremost as sinners.

For many people, God is primitive, behind, trying to drag everything back to some prehistoric era as opposed to spirit, force, love, drawing us into a better future, which to me is – that story has done something in me and I’ve seen it do things in other people.

Sometimes the reason people have a problem accepting ‘the gospel’ is that they sense that the God lurking behind Jesus isn’t safe, loving, or good. It doesn’t make sense, it can’t be reconciled, and so they say no.

When you come to the end of yourself, you are at that exact moment in the kind of place where you can fully experience the God who is for you.

I think what’s happened in the modern world, there’s a lot of people that sound very smart and it’s very compelling and alluring, but it leaves you empty.

Many of the most significant moments in our lives come not because it all went right but because it all fell apart.

It’s important to embrace several truths about yourself and those around you, beginning with this one: who you AREN’T isn’t interesting.

To make the cross of Jesus just about human salvation is to miss that God is interested in the saving of everything. Every star and rock and bird. All things.