396 Quotes by Rob Bell

If there’s any place where you would express your deepest doubts, it would be church.

To fully appreciate the Bible, you have to let it be what it is.

Freedom is not having everything we crave, it’s being able to go without the things we crave and being OK with it.

Because if something is wrong with your God, if your God is loving one second and cruel the next, if your God will punish people for all of eternity for sins committed in a few short years, no amount of clever marketing or compelling language or good music or great coffee will be able to disguise that one, true, glaring, untenable, unacceptable, awful reality.

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

Grace is when you know you’re loved exactly as you are.

For many, ‘desire’ is a bad word, something we’re supposed to ‘give up for God.’ That kind of thinking can be really destructive because it teaches people to deny their hearts, their true selves.

Wherever you find truth, wherever you discover something new, affirm it, embrace it, enjoy it.

The best team does not always win, it’s the team that plays the best.