To me some of the greatest writing is when somebody puts something in words that you felt and experienced and you go, that's it.
Rob BellIf your faith is threatened by something that's true, then it wasn't much of a faith to begin with, was it?
Rob BellWhen 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 BellSuffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.
Rob Bell