“Hope. People want hope. We crave hope. We long for hope. Hope has been present since the very beginning. And almost in the worst situations of human history, you often find the greatest amount of hope. The very nature of the situation, the way stepped-on people created within them even more hope than when things were going fine. Hope has always been around.” PeopleWayWantHumansLongHas BeensSituationWorstFineAmountCraveHuman HistoryWorst Situation Author:Rob Bell
“You want people who are both great fans and supporters and believers of your work and people who are also ruthlessly honest. People who will tell you the truth about it. Over the years I've picked up some friends and I know who to show what to and they'll give me the proper read.” PeopleKnowsWantGivingYearsShowsFansHonestGive MeBelieverSupporterHonest PeopleGreat Fans Author:Rob Bell
“To be honest with you, I am passionate about all the people out there who want to know Jesus, they want to know God, and they are sick of a system that is hung up on a bunch of things that have nothing to do with the love of God.” PeopleKnowsWantJesusHonestSickPassionateBunchBeing HonestGod LoveHungKnowing God Author:Rob Bell
“When someone wrongs us, we rarely (if ever) want to do the same thing back. Why? Because we want to do something more harmful. Likewise, when someone insults us, our instinct is to search for words that will be more insulting.Revenge always escalates.” IfsWantInstinctRevengeInsultInsulting Author:Rob Bell
“I get ideas about things I want to make and then I throw myself into it with everything I have.” WantIdeas Author:Rob Bell
“God gives us what we want. For people who want nothing to do with peace, joy, reconciliation and peace... God will give you what you want. I see people make unbelievably destructive choices.” PeopleWantGivingJoyChoicesWhat You WantGods WillDestructiveReconciliation Author:Rob Bell
“One of the oldest aches in the bones of humanity is loneliness. I mean it's one of the things that goes way back; loneliness is not good for the world. And so, whoever you are, gay or straight, it is totally normal, natural, and healthy to want somebody to go through life with. It's central to our humanity.” WorldWayWantMeanHumanityNaturalLonelinessHealthyGayNormalBonesAche Author:Rob Bell
“We all want to make a difference, to live in peace, to have joy each morning that we get to live this day and see what it brings.” WantJoyDifferencesMorningMaking A DifferenceThis Day Author:Rob Bell
“Culture is already there and the church will continue to be even more irrelevant when it quotes letters from two thousand years ago as their best defense. When you have in front of you flesh and blood people who are your brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles, co-workers and neighbors and they love each other and they just want to go through life with someone.” PeopleWantYearsTwoCultureChurchBloodFrontsBrotherThousandYears AgoLettersWorkersDefenseNeighborFleshThousand YearsUnclesIrrelevantBrothers And SistersAuntLove Each OtherYour BrotherFlesh And BloodCo WorkerAunts And UnclesChurch Bells Author:Rob Bell
“Being a pastor for 20 years I realized that the labels, agnostic, atheist, believer, everybody's human and everybody wants to know what kind of universe we're living in, and everybody's living according to a story.” KnowsWantYearsHumansKindStoriesUniverseAtheistBelieverI RealizedLabelsPastorAgnostic Author:Rob Bell
“And a lot of times, the religious discussion is almost a masquerade for the real question, is what stories that we tell ourselves and that we tell each other and what convictions and beliefs actually have the capacity to make us the kind of people who together can make the world the kind of world we all want it to be?” PeopleWorldWantKindRealStoriesTogetherBeliefReligiousCapacityConvictionDiscussionMasqueradeReal Questions Author:Rob Bell
“Fear wants us to become obsessed with some event or person in the future, a year, a month, even a day. It also wants us to look backwards not at our successes, but our short-comings and our failures. Fear losses it's grip when we stay in the now.” WantYearsLooksPersonsLossEventsMonthsObsessedBackwardsWant U Author:Rob Bell
“Times change. God doesn’t, but times do. We learn and grow, and the world around us shifts, and the Christian faith is alive only when it is listening, morphing, innovating, letting go of whatever has gotten in the way of Jesus and embracing whatever will help us be more and more the people God wants us to be.” PeopleWorldWayWantGodHelpingChristianTimeFaithJesusGrowsChangeAliveListeningLetting GoChristian InspirationalChristian FaithBeing A Better PersonChange GodMorphing Author:Rob Bell
“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.” WayWantHellDemandRejectsRebel Author:Rob Bell
“Do we get what we want? Yes, we get what we want. God is that loving. If we want isolation, despair, and the right to be our own god, God graciously grants us that option. If we insist on using our God-given pwer to make the world in our image, God allows us that freedom; we have the kind of license to do that.that's how love works. It cant 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.” IfsWorldWantKindWinningGivenRoomsDespairIsolationWorking ItGrantsLicenseCantGod ImageYes We Can Author:Rob Bell
“When people use the word hell, what do they mean? They mean a place, an event, a situation absent of how God desires things to be. Famine, debt, oppression, loneliness, despair, death, slaughter--they are all hell on earth. Jesus' desire for his followers is that they live in such a way that they bring heaven to earth. What's disturbing is when people talk more about hell after this life than they do about Hell here and now. As a Christian, I want to do what I can to resist hell coming to earth.” PeopleWayWantMeanI CanUseEarthChristianDesireJesusHeavenSituationHellEventsLonelinessDespairDebtOppressionThis LifeFollowersDisturbingAbsentHere And NowFamineSlaughterHell On Earth Author:Rob Bell
“The life that you want begins the moment you embrace the life you have because all of it is a miracle.” WantMomentsInspiringMiracleEmbrace Author:Rob Bell
