396 Quotes by Rob Bell

Your life is a gift and how you respond to it – what you do with it matters. That’s where I start.

We are both large and small, strong and weak, formidable and faint, reflecting the image of the divine, and formed from dust.

It is as if the smallest amount of light is infinitely more powerful than massive amounts of dark.

In those moments when the two of you see things differently, you can hold on to your view, defending it and protecting it and arguing for its superiority, or you can allow your perspective to be broadened, enriched, expanded, and deepened.

When you create space for another to thrive, it always unleashes new energies.

The Bible was written by Jewish people who belonged to a Jewish minority living under the oppression of a succession of massive military superpowers who had conquered them: The Egyptians, the Persians, the Babylonians, the Assyrians, the Greeks, the Romans. These.

I embrace the term ‘evangelical,’ if by that we mean a belief that we together can actually work for change in the world, caring for the environment, extending to the poor generosity and kindness, a hopeful outlook. That’s a beautiful sort of thing.

There is hell now, and there is hell later, and Jesus teaches us to take both seriously.

Whether we are reading the Bible for the first time or standing in a field in Israel next to a historian and an archaeologist and a scholar, the Bible meets us where we are. That is what truth does.