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“Love demands freedom. It always has, and it always will. We are free to resist, reject, and rebel against God's ways for us. We can have all the hell we want.”
― Rob Bell, quote from Love Wins Low Price CD: Love Wins Low Price CD
“As we experience this love, there is a temptation at times to become hostile to our earlier understandings, feeling embarrassed that we were so "simple" or "naive," or "brainwashed" or whatever terms arise when we haven't come to terms with our own story. These past understandings aren't to be denied or dismissed; they're to be embraced. Those experiences belong. Love demands that they belong. That's where we were at that point in our life and God met us there. Those moments were necessary for us to arrive here, at this place at this time, as we are. Love frees us to embrace all of our history, the history in which all things are being made new.”
― Rob Bell, quote from Love Wins Low Price CD: Love Wins Low Price CD
“To say it again, eternal life is less about a kind of time that starts when we die, and more about a quality and vitality of life now in connection to God.
Eternal life doesn't start when we die;
it starts now. It's not about a life that begins at death; it's about experiencing the kind of life now that can endure and survive even death.”
― Rob Bell, quote from Love Wins Low Price CD: Love Wins Low Price CD
“Some communities don't permit open, honest inquiry about the things that matter most. Lots of people have voiced a concern, expressed a doubt, or raised a question, only to be told by their family, church, friends, or tribe: "We don't discuss those things here."
I believe the discussion itself is divine. Abraham does his best to bargain with God, most of the book of Job consists of arguments by Job and his friends about the deepest questions of human suffering, God is practically on trial in the book of Lamentations, and Jesus responds to almost every question he's asked with...a question.”
― Rob Bell, quote from Love Wins Low Price CD: Love Wins Low Price CD
“Your deepest, darkest sins and your shameful secrets are simply irrelevant when it comes to the counterintuitive, ecstatic announcement of the gospel. So are your goodness, your rightness, your church attendance, and all of the wise, moral, mature decisions you have made and actions you have taken.”
― Rob Bell, quote from Love Wins Low Price CD: Love Wins Low Price CD
“It's as if Thomas Kinkade and Dante were at a party, and one turned to the other sometime after midnight and uttered that classic line "You know, we really should work together sometime...”
― Rob Bell, quote from Love Wins Low Price CD: Love Wins Low Price CD
“When Isaiah predicted that spears would become pruning hooks, that's a reference to cultivating. Pruning and trimming and growing and paying close attention to the plants and whether they're getting enough water and if their roots are deep enough. Soil under the fingernails, grapes being trampled under bare feet, fingers sticky from handling fresh fruit.
It's that green stripe you get around the sole of your shoes when you mow the lawn.
Life in the age to come.
Earthy.”
― Rob Bell, quote from Love Wins Low Price CD: Love Wins Low Price CD
“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.”
― Rob Bell, quote from Love Wins Low Price CD: Love Wins Low Price CD
“We shape our God, and then our God shapes us.”
― Rob Bell, quote from Love Wins Low Price CD: Love Wins Low Price CD
“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.”
― Rob Bell, quote from Love Wins Low Price CD: Love Wins Low Price CD
“Once again, God has a purpose. A desire. A goal. And God never stops pursuing it. Jesus tells a series of parables in Luke 15 about a woman who loses a coin, a shepherd who loses a sheep, and a father who loses a son. The stories aren’t ultimately about things and people being lost; the stories are about things and people being found. The God that Jesus teaches us about doesn’t give up until everything that was lost is found. This God simply doesn’t give up. Ever.”
― Rob Bell, quote from Love Wins Low Price CD: Love Wins Low Price CD
“When the gospel is understood primarily in terms of entrance rather than joyous participation, it can actually serve to cut people off from the explosive, liberating experience of the God who is an endless giving circle of joy and creativity.”
― Rob Bell, quote from Love Wins Low Price CD: Love Wins Low Price CD
“Jesus is supracultural. He is present within all cultures, and yet outside of all cultures. He is for all people, and yet he refuses to be co-opted or owned by any one culture. That includes any Christian culture. Any denomination. Any church. Any theological system. We can point to him, name him, follow him, discuss him, honor him, and believe in him—but we cannot claim him to be ours any more than he’s anyone else’s.”
― Rob Bell, quote from Love Wins Low Price CD: Love Wins Low Price CD
“Love demands freedom. It always has, and it always will. We are free to resist, reject, and rebel against God’s ways for us. We can have all the hell we want.”
― Rob Bell, quote from Love Wins Low Price CD: Love Wins Low Price CD
“God wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth” (1 Tim. 2). So does God get what God wants?”
― Rob Bell, quote from Love Wins Low Price CD: Love Wins Low Price CD
“He talks of the life that will come from his own death, and he promises that life will flow to us in thousands of small ways as we die to our egos, our pride, our need to be right, our self-sufficiency, our rebellion, and our stubborn insistence that we deserve to get our way. When we cling with white knuckles to our sins and our hostility, we’re like a tree that won’t let its leaves go. There can’t be a spring if we’re still stuck in the fall. Lose your life and find it, he says. That’s how the world works.”
― Rob Bell, quote from Love Wins Low Price CD: Love Wins Low Price CD
“...Jesus responds to almost every question he's asked with...a question.
"What do you think? How do you read it?" he asks, again and again and again.”
― Rob Bell, quote from Love Wins Low Price CD: Love Wins Low Price CD
“There is hell now, and there is hell later, and Jesus teaches us to take both seriously.”
― Rob Bell, quote from Love Wins Low Price CD: Love Wins Low Price CD
“Third, it is our responsibility to be extremely careful about making negative, decisive,”
― Rob Bell, quote from Love Wins Low Price CD: Love Wins Low Price CD
“This participation is important, because Jesus and the prophets lived with an awareness that God has been looking for partners since the beginning, people who will take seriously their divine responsibility to care for the earth and each other in loving, sustainable ways.”
― Rob Bell, quote from Love Wins Low Price CD: Love Wins Low Price CD
“And to that, that impulse, craving, yearning, longing, desire— God says yes. Yes, there is water for that thirst, food for that hunger, light for that darkness, relief for that burden. If we want hell, if we want heaven, they are ours. That’s how love works. It can’t be forced, manipulated, or coerced. It always leaves room for the other to decide. God says yes, we can have what we want, because love wins.”
― Rob Bell, quote from Love Wins Low Price CD: Love Wins Low Price CD
Rob Bell
Born date August 23, 1970
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