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Rob Bell Quotes: 7

The moment God is figured out with nice neat lines and definitions, we are no longer dealing with God.
Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith
What we do comes out of who we believe we are.
Sex God: Exploring the Endless Connections Between Sexuality and Spirituality
Love is giving up control. It’s surrendering the desire to control the other person. The two—love and controlling power over the other person—are mutually exclusive. If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship.
Sex God: Exploring the Endless Connections Between Sexuality and Spirituality
Freedom is not having everything we crave, it's being able to go without the things we crave and being OK with it.
The danger is that in reaction to abuses and distortions of an idea, we'll reject it completely. And in the process miss out on the good of it, the worth of it, the truth of it.
Sex God: Exploring the Endless Connections Between Sexuality and Spirituality
Take faith, for example. For many people in our world, the opposite of faith is doubt. The goal, then, within this understanding, is to eliminate doubt. But faith and doubt aren't opposites. Doubt is often a sign that your faith has a pulse, that it's alive and well and exploring and searching. Faith and doubt aren't opposites, they are, it turns out, excellent dance partners.
What We Talk about When We Talk about God
because God has spoken, and everything else is commentary.
Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith