Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isnt there anymore. – Rob Bell
My parents were both very intellectually honest, straightforward, and for them, faith meant that you were fully engaged. – Rob Bell
Well, I affirm orthodox Christian faith. I affirm the Nicene Creed. I dont think Im doing anything terribly new. – Rob Bell
The myth of redemptive violence – Caesar, peace, and victory – is in peoples bones so deeply, we arent even aware of it. You crush the opposition thats how we bring peace. – Rob Bell
The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master. – Henry James