Renee

“We’re here on earth, in these bodies, feeling the pull of gravity, knowing that we’re only here for a while. But then there are these moments— like brushes or glimpses— of love and connection and hope, and suddenly we’re here, and we’re everywhere. Our feet are on the ground, but we’re flying. Our hearts are still beating, but our souls are soaring.”
― Rob Bell, Everything Is Spiritual: Finding Your Way in a Turbulent World

“I saw how the Bible isn’t a book about how to get into heaven, it’s a library of poems and letters and stories about bringing heaven to earth now, about this world becoming more and more the place it should be. There is very, very little in the Bible about what happens when you die. That’s not what the writers were focused on. Their interest, again and again, is on how this world is arranged.”
― Rob Bell, Everything Is Spiritual: Finding Your Way in a Turbulent World

“I saw that there’s no word for spiritual in the Hebrew scriptures (also called the Old Testament). So basic, and yet so revolutionary. There’s no word for spiritual, because to call something spiritual would be to imply that other things aren’t. In the Bible, everything is spiritual. All of life.”
― Rob Bell, Everything Is Spiritual: Finding Your Way in a Turbulent World

“This is the opposite of brainwashing. This is the opposite of Just believe and don’t ask questions. He keeps inviting people to think critically, to examine, question, doubt, test, struggle. To own it for themselves. I came across this line in the New Testament: Test everything. I love that line. It’s”
― Rob Bell, Everything Is Spiritual: Finding Your Way in a Turbulent World