Explore Quotes by Rob Bell

As a pastor, you get invited into the most poignant moments of people's lives. Whether it's a wedding or a funeral or a hospital visit, you get invited into the center of the event, whether or not you know the people.

The myth of redemptive violence - Caesar, peace, and victory - is in people's bones so deeply, we aren't even aware of it. You crush the opposition; that's how we bring peace.

I believe God gives people the right to say no, to resist, to refuse, to reject, to cling to their sins, to cling to their version of their story.

The moment God is figured out with nice neat lines and definitions, we are no longer dealing with God.

Christian' makes a poor adjective

I live with the understanding that truth is bigger than any religion and the world is God's and everything in it.

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

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

If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship.

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

Two of the most powerful words you can hear someone say are ‘me too.’

The cross is God taking on flesh and blood and saying, Me too.

The cross is Gods way of taking away all of our accusations, excuses, and arguments.

Love is what God is, love is why Jesus came, and love is why he continues to come, year after year to person after person...May you experience this vast, expansive, infinite, indestructible love that has been yours all along. May you discover that this love is as wide as the sky and as small as the cracks in your heart no one else knows about, and may you know, deep in your bones, that love wins.

When you forgive somebody, when you are generous, when you withhold judgment, when you love and when you stand up to injustice, you are, in that moment, bringing heaven to earth.

Suffering is traumatic and awful and we get angry and we shake our fists at the heavens and we vent and rage and weep. But in the process we discover a new tomorrow, one we never would have imagined otherwise.

If the gospel isn't good news for everybody, then it isn't good news for anybody. And this is because the most powerful things happen when the church surrenders its desire to convert people and convince them to join. It is when the church gives itself away in radical acts of service and compassion, expecting nothing in return, that the way of Jesus is most vividly put on display.

On the Sabbath- we are reminded that we are not human doings, but human beings.

The life you want begins by embracing the life you have.

One truth is that suffering raises profound questions with the universe. The other truth is that grace, gift and generosity also raise profound questions.

It often takes suffering and lost in order to remind us of how precious life is.