When the lab rats hear the bell ringing, they freeze. That's what fear does to you - fear stops you dead in your tracks. Fear can keep you from harm, but fear can also rob you of your potential. Fear can rob you of an experience. Fear can rob you of happiness. Fear can rob you of real life... Darkness has a way of scaring us.
Rob BellThe moment God is figured out with nice neat lines and definitions, we are no longer dealing with God.
Rob Bellopening up your soul to someone, letting them into your spirit, thoughts, fears, future, hopes, dreams ... that is being naked.
Rob BellThere's way too much wonder and mystery all around us to not stay open to more that's going on here. You can wake up, and sense and feel and taste and hear a whole world right here within this one, right here in this breath you're about to take.
Rob Bell