396 Quotes by Rob Bell

I'm interested in painting the most beautifully compelling pictures and images and metaphors and stories and explanations possible that will put Jesus in language for a world that desperately needs to hear it.

When someone sets out to be controversial or provocative or shocking as an end in itself, I don't think that's a noble goal.

Any time someone makes you feel guilty about how you are living, that is part of the old system (pre-Christ).

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

The thought of the word church and the word marketing in the same sentence makes me sick.

No one has the last word other than God.

Often the people most concerned about others going to hell when they die seem less concerned with the hells on earth right now, while the people most concerned with the hells on earth right now seem the least concerned about hell after death.

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.

If this understanding of the good news of Jesus prevailed among Christians, the belief that Jesus’s message is about how to get somewhere else, you could possibly end up with a world in which millions of people were starving, thirsty, and poor; the earth was being exploited and polluted; disease and despair were everywhere; and Christians weren’t known for doing much about it. If it got bad enough, you might even have people rejecting Jesus because of how his followers lived. That would be tragic.