The myth of redemptive violence - Caesar, peace, and victory - is in people's bones so deeply, w...
ROB BELL Our tendency in the midst of suffering is to turn on God. To get angry and bitter and shake our fist...
ROB BELL The moment God is figured out with nice neat lines and definitions, we are no longer dealing with Go...
ROB BELL What we do comes out of who we believe we are.
ROB BELL Well, I affirm orthodox Christian faith. I affirm the Nicene Creed. I don't think I'm doing ...
ROB BELL The fundamental story arc of the Bible is God is passionate about rescuing this world, restoring it,...
ROB BELL Suffering is traumatic and awful and we get angry and we shake our fists at the heavens and we vent ...
ROB BELL A lot of Christians have been taught a story that begins in chapter 3 of Genesis, instead of chapter...
ROB BELL When we get to what happens when we die, we don't have any video footage. So let's at least ...
ROB BELL Love demands freedom. It always has, and it always will. We are free to resist, reject, and rebel ag...
ROB BELL Questions are not scary. What is scary is when people don’t have any. What is tragic is faith that...
ROB BELL If the gospel isn't good news for everybody, then it isn't good news for anybody.
ROB BELL As obvious as it is, then, Jesus is bigger than any one religion.

He didn't come to star...
ROB BELL It's as if Thomas Kinkade and Dante were at a party, and one turned to the other sometime after midn...
ROB BELL I like to say that I practice militant mysticism. I'm really absolutely sure of some things that...
ROB BELL I'm interested in painting the most beautifully compelling pictures and images and metaphors and...
ROB BELL Agape doesn't love somebody because they're worthy.

Agape makes them worthy by the streng...
ROB BELL Missions then is less about the transportation of God from one place to another and more about the i...
ROB BELL If we want hell,
if we want heaven,
they are ours.

That's how love works. It...
ROB BELL Love is giving up control. It’s surrendering the desire to control the other person. The two—lov...
ROB BELL When Isaiah predicted that spears would become pruning hooks, that's a reference to cultivating. Pru...
ROB BELL You turn the light on, you get all kinds of bugs.
ROB BELL We want a little risk in our lives because it keeps things interesting. It wakes us up, it gives us ...
ROB BELL You just took a breath. You're about to take another. Inhale, then exhale, then another inhale. In a...
ROB BELL It takes quite a spine to turn the other cheek. It takes phenomenal fortitude to love your enemy. It...
ROB BELL Eternal life then is a certain kind of life I am living more and more now and will go on forever.17 ...
ROB BELL I’m convinced being generous is a better way to live. I’m convinced forgiving people and not car...
ROB BELL When people stepped forward and said, “You have heard it interpreted this way, but I tell you it r...
ROB BELL I have been told that I need to believe in Jesus. Which is a good thing. But what I am learning is t...
ROB BELL To make the cross of Jesus just about human salvation is to miss that God is interested in the savin...
ROB BELL I can’t find one place in the teachings of Jesus, or the Bible for that matter, where we are to id...
ROB BELL everybody is resting on a set of interpretations, and we need to be honest about it.
ROB BELL So as a Christian, I am free to claim the good, the true, the holy, wherever and whenever I find it....
ROB BELL But the first Christians didn’t see Jesus this way, as if God were somewhere else and then cooked ...
ROB BELL For Jesus, the question wasn’t, “How do I get into heaven?” but “How do I bring heaven here?
ROB BELL If there is a divine being who made everything, including us, what would our experiences with this b...
ROB BELL Whatever those things are that make you feel fully alive and like the universe is ultimately a good ...
ROB BELL One of the great “theologians” of our time, Sean Penn, put it this way: “When everything gets ...
ROB BELL Why would we ever be surprised when truth turns up in strange places?
ROB BELL It is possible for music to be labeled "Christian" and be terrible music. It could lack creativity a...
ROB BELL The Bible tells a story. A story that isn’t over. A story that is still being told. A story that w...
ROB BELL If anybody didn't have a messiah complex, it was Jesus
ROB BELL because God has spoken, and everything else is commentary.
ROB BELL It is such a letdown to rise from the dead and have your friends not recognize you.
ROB BELL Times change. God doesn’t, but times do. We learn and grow, and the world around us shifts, and th...
ROB BELL Think about some of the words that are used in these kinds of discussions, one of the most common be...
ROB BELL [The Bible] has to be interpreted. And if it isn’t interpreted, then it can’t be put into action...
ROB BELL Whether we are reading the Bible for the first time or standing in a field in Israel next to a histo...
ROB BELL Salvation is the entire universe being brought back into harmony with its maker.
ROB BELL Your job is the relentless pursuit of who God made you to be. And anything else you do is sin and yo...
ROB BELL Why blame the dark for being dark? It is far more helpful to ask why the light isn’t as bright as ...
ROB BELL We live in a world where we have friends, neighbors, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, people we jou...
ROB BELL Over the years, I've realized that I have as much in common with the performance artist, the sta...
ROB BELL Swords appear strong, but they're actually quite weak. Jesus appears weak, but he's actually...
ROB BELL It’s easy to take off your clothes and have sex. People do it all the time. But opening up your so...
ROB BELL In a letter, Martin Luther, one of the leaders of the Protestant Reformation, wrote to Hans von Rech...
ROB BELL As we experience this love, there is a temptation at times to become hostile to our earlier understa...
ROB BELL There are always two risks: the risk of trying something new, and the risk of not trying. You risk s...
ROB BELL One of the most popular games to watch on eSports is 'League of Legends,' a game that blends...
ROB MANUEL At the end of the day, all the best negotiating techniques can't overcome the most substantive p...
ROB PORTMAN I love improv so much. Listening. I think that's the key. When you improvise, you put a lot of p...
ROB RIGGLE Great things come out of being hungry and cold. Once you're pampered, you get lazy.
ROB ZOMBIE I just really just try to get better as a player every week, just focusing on the team we have to pl...
ROB GRONKOWSKI Before I go to bed, I've got to hit my situps and pushups. While I'm watching a TV show, I d...
ROB GRONKOWSKI Just follow the rules. Always have a designated driver. Don't be doing anything to make someone ...
ROB GRONKOWSKI I've always been a fan of football, always watched the NFL and it's great to always sit back...
ROB GRONKOWSKI Stay hyped! Get chicks!
ROB GRONKOWSKI My brother's got two degrees. He got one for me.
ROB GRONKOWSKI You have to give it to the Packers. They are a good team. They have a great offense and a great defe...
ROB GRONKOWSKI Just like any other game we're taking on we've got to prepare, prepare hard, mentally, physi...
ROB GRONKOWSKI At one time, I wanted to be a WWE wrestler. I still do. I want to go in the ring once and mess aroun...
ROB GRONKOWSKI I was always blessed growing up with opportunities and access to facilities, equipment, and playing ...
ROB GRONKOWSKI I was running super slow. Chris thought I was done. Then one day at the end of February, I woke up a...
ROB GRONKOWSKI Just put football first, or your job first. Give everything you've got all week, work hard, work...
ROB GRONKOWSKI You always want to be on top of the playbook. You always want to be refreshed with the plays, make s...
ROB GRONKOWSKI We go out to practice every single day and we have fun out there, but at the same time, we're ge...
ROB GRONKOWSKI My softer side? I mean, I like to snuggle.
ROB GRONKOWSKI Keep doing what you have to do to help the team out.
ROB GRONKOWSKI Everyone always helped me out growing up, and everyone now supports me Sunday. So whenever there'...
ROB GRONKOWSKI The importance of lifting weights is it kind of makes me who I am.
ROB GRONKOWSKI I'd go at anyone. I took all of my brothers' bull. It made me who I am.
ROB GRONKOWSKI Me not working hard? Yeah, right - picture that with a Kodak.
ROB GRONKOWSKI I just go with the flow, day by day, week by week.
ROB GRONKOWSKI To this day, I still haven't touched one dime of my signing bonus or NFL contract money. I live ...
ROB GRONKOWSKI You want to be the best at work in order to go out and celebrate.
ROB GRONKOWSKI I saw 'The Grand Budapest Hotel.' I liked it. I saw 'The Fault in Our Stars,' and I ...
ROB REINER I'm very aware of the fact that Broadway musicals being brought to the screen are very few and f...
ROB MARSHALL The 2000s were the time when bromance became a kind of love that dared to speak its name. As a high-...
ROB SHEFFIELD The pirating thing is bad. The people it hurts the most are the ones you least think it hurts. It...
ROB ZOMBIE Decisions about your health should be between you and your doctor, not a bureaucrat and an insurance...
ROB PORTMAN I just love the Corps. I love the brotherhood, the camaraderie. I thank anyone in uniform who serves...
ROB RIGGLE The best way to appreciate our political process is to volunteer for a campaign and support a candid...
ROB MCKENNA The political spin in Washington is revolting, just revolting. It's a callous political game.
ROB BISHOP I want to experience Dallas. It's a new city where I see new business opportunities.
ROB KARDASHIAN My son Matthew's beloved dog is a Jack Russell. His name is Buster. Matthew picked him as a pupp...
ROB LOWE As I've evolved, I'm capable of doing a lot of things at once, but really, as an entrepreneu...
ROB DYRDEK The scariest part to any story is the sliver of truth you hide in the horror. Sometimes its not abou...
ROB MANUEL Things like that become a blur - shot at some soundstage, somewhere - that's as much as I can re...
ROB ZOMBIE I had had some successes in the '90s, always made money, but the truth was I was like a man push...
ROB LOWE One of the things that make Liars so fascinating after five albums, each one so completely different...
ROB SHEFFIELD Like many other touchstones of twenty-first-century pop culture, 'The Sopranos' was hatched ...
ROB SHEFFIELD To be fair, Republicans are not blameless. The deficit began to spiral out of control on President B...
ROB WOODALL When life gives you lemons. . . You might as well shove 'em where the sun don't shine, because you s...
ROB THURMAN Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square h...
ROB SILTANEN The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.
ROB SILTANEN Once you embrace your value, talents and strengths, it neutralizes when others think less of you.
ROB LIANO I don't know whether it is beautiful or sad, that I find such blissful happiness within the confines...
KENDAL ROB Nothing is born into this world without labor.
ROB LIANO Be happy or die.
ROB COHEN If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a "fix" of somethi...
ROB STAMPFLI Making copies.
ROB SCHNEIDER What we learned here is love tastes bitter when it’s gone.
ROB THOMAS And the people we’ve become, well, they’ve never been the people who we are.
ROB THOMAS In acting, there's a type of courage you're recognized for all the time. You lose 100 pounds...
ROB LOWE To me, acting is like a party. It's like a fun thing to do. You don't have to worry. You don...
ROB REINER Growing up, I had the weird fantasy list: I wanted to be Alice Cooper, Steven Spielberg, and Stan Le...
ROB ZOMBIE I'm a comedian at the beginning and the end of the day. I'm not affiliated with any campaign...
ROB DELANEY I didn't start to work until I realized what it was I had to offer. I stopped imitating performe...
ROB MCCLURE It takes only one bad amp to turn your ears to oatmeal: That's how old hippies became Yanni fans...
ROB SHEFFIELD I have had a lot of blessed, interesting things happen to me and have bumped up against some amazing...
ROB LOWE I'm not representing any organization. I represent the people of Ohio, and a lot of people in Oh...
ROB PORTMAN Things have slowed down considerably since the new series has started airing and I am currently look...
ROB MARIANO 'Wild Grinders' becoming an animated series, and airing on Nicktoons is another one of my bo...
ROB DYRDEK Added to the rooster of courses, 'Tiger Woods 10' adds in seven new courses from the pristin...
ROB MANUEL Maybe because I come from choreography, I've always felt that there's something about action...
ROB MARSHALL I grew up in the D.C. area, and I used to wear a Redskins jersey just walking around. I just had kin...
ROB HUEBEL Individuals will achieve healthier lifestyles when prevention and wellness programs are accessible a...
ROB WITTMAN The Iron Dome system is a proven way for Israel to defend its citizens from hostile threats and will...
ROB PORTMAN After my parents' divorce when I was 4, I spent weekends with my dad before we finally moved to ...
ROB LOWE A good vacation for me is going to warm weather. Being able to go outside, in the sun, hit the beach...
ROB GRONKOWSKI I only drink coffee grown in high altitude rain forests.
ROB DYRDEK I'm endlessly fascinated by parenting, marriage, my wife and the ins and outs of marriage.
ROB DELANEY We dream of the perfect wave, the perfect job, the perfect house, the perfect love, and when we get ...
ROB MACHADO Hometown Aerosmith fans are different from other Aerosmith fans, and that mainly has to do with Joe ...
ROB SHEFFIELD Sometimes it's not always about what you can see or hear but what's under the hood of a game...
ROB MANUEL I like anywhere with a beach. A beach and warm weather is all I really need.
ROB GRONKOWSKI I feel like it's a dangerous and dark world if 'Sunny' becomes mainstream comedy. If you...
ROB MCELHENNEY You'd be surprised how cold you get in the water, especially surfing a place like Pipeline. If t...
ROB MACHADO I like movies where you can come back and re-watch them and admire the cinematography 25 years later...
ROB ZOMBIE My hopes and aspirations haven't changed since I started in this business. They've been to b...
ROB LOWE My initial introduction to him was - this is a funny story... My Aunt Marian, my entire life growing...
ROB MCCLURE Maggie and I got married and then had to wait three years before we got to take our honeymoon becaus...
ROB MCCLURE One of the interesting things about Twitter is looking how famous people choose to use it. Take some...
ROB LOWE I'm not Charlie Chaplin and will never, ever claim to be. But when I become the 'Tramp,'...
ROB MCCLURE But MTV relishes its vestigial role as a star maker, so every year it puts all its clout into making...
ROB SHEFFIELD I love anything by Joan Didion. Incidentally, she was one of the local moms when I was growing up in...
ROB LOWE Julia Louis-Dreyfus is just perfect in 'Veep.' She gets to show off the spiky claws beneath ...
ROB SHEFFIELD George Clooney is exactly what you would expect. He's annoyingly good looking, insanely funny, a...
ROB HUEBEL I'm up here in Cleveland tonight and there are a lot of folks who are concerned about it. Twenty...
ROB PORTMAN When you tax capital gains income, you don't help the economy, you hurt the economy, which is wh...
ROB PORTMAN Out of college, I had two job offers. One was to be a canoe instructor for Outward Bound. And frankl...
ROB PORTMAN It just so happens that people aren't doing comedy about abortion or cannibalism or waterboardin...
ROB MCELHENNEY Cannes is a little bit like French wine. There are certain years that people prefer over others.
ROB LOWE I'm a true centrist: my beliefs put me in the middle... You know what happens to people who driv...
ROB LOWE Tom Ford, who is my all-time favourite, once said to me, 'Here's the thing about dress shirt...
ROB LOWE I've been on TV a long time, and I've never had a catch phrase.
ROB LOWE Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fi...
ROB REINER Just take yourself back to September 2001. As that month went on, and as that autumn unrolled, every...
ROB RIGGLE Can I play a southern character? You betcha. Can I do the voice of Tourist Dad and Carnival Barker? ...
ROB HUEBEL It goes without saying that 'Buncha Losers' comedies speak to tough times. The massive unemp...
ROB SHEFFIELD I lived in New York for 10 years; I followed the Rangers. Now I live in L.A. I want to adopt a team....
ROB RIGGLE Look, here's the deal: The Chiefs' fate and the Royals' fate, that's my fate.
ROB RIGGLE I'm a Kansas City kid, so I love my Royals and Chiefs. I went to the University of Kansas, so I ...
ROB RIGGLE Sampling, statisticians have told us, is a much more effective way of getting a good census.
ROB LOWE My greatest regret at the passing of America-hating strongman Hugo Chavez is that he didn't live...
ROB LOWE At any given time, there are a lot of million-dollar luxury charter boats cruising around the Mentaw...
ROB MACHADO Everyone has baggage, maybe we should help each other carry it.
ROB LIANO The people you love become ghosts inside of you, and like this you keep them alive.
ROB MONTGOMERY Justin Bieber, I love to death. He's such a cool, ridiculous, much crazier kid in real life - mo...
ROB DYRDEK My mom has this thing where if I'm doing anything doing dirty or crazy, she sniffs it out and ye...
ROB HUEBEL I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China.
ROB LOWE One meal I'm constantly reminded about is when I ate kangaroo tail in the desert in Australia; i...
ROB MACHADO My roles in comedies from 'Austin Powers' to 'Tommy Boy' to 'Wayne's World,&...
ROB LOWE If it awakens in us as a whole how important that is - the theme of how conquest and ambition are me...
ROB MORROW 'American Horror' goes for a very specific kind of Seventies suburban downer ambience - '...
ROB SHEFFIELD As many citizens can attest, the U.S. is a great place to get sick, but a terrible place to stay wel...
ROB WITTMAN I was a huge fan of 'Avenue Q' long before I ever dreamed of being a part of it. I saw it of...
ROB MCCLURE You can hear the Celtic heartbeat all over Europe and America, from Bing Crosby to Jack White, from ...
ROB SHEFFIELD I'm on the Armed Services Committee, which gives me the opportunity to get involved on some of t...
ROB PORTMAN Anything is possible if you're willing to work for it.
ROB DYRDEK If I could be anyone, I'd choose the lead singer of Arcade Fire, Win Butler.
ROB KARDASHIAN Most of us grew up with video games in the household, either the original Nintendo in the living roo...
ROB MANUEL That's the secret of 'True Blood' - all the creatures that roam Bon Temps become a metap...
ROB SHEFFIELD 'Borderlands' came out of nowhere to appease the gnawing hunger left behind with the dearth ...
ROB MANUEL 'Buncha Losers' comedy is one of those homegrown American art forms, up there with infomerci...
ROB SHEFFIELD I've got four brothers, so with them and all our friends we had these sports parties in the base...
ROB GRONKOWSKI I was fortunate, I guess, to be part of some good fiscal discipline in the Bush administration. The ...
ROB PORTMAN I served at a time when we had a strong economy, when we had deficits that we would die for today. I...
ROB PORTMAN The sax solo as we know it today would not exist without Gerry Rafferty. His 1978 soft-rock classic ...
ROB SHEFFIELD At an incredibly divisive point in pop history, Donna Summer managed to create an undeniable across-...
ROB SHEFFIELD Bacon. Let's talk about bacon. There's no meat more glorious than bacon. You can add it to p...
ROB MANUEL I'll be the first to admit it - after the first episode, I wasn't sold on Peter Capaldi as t...
ROB MANUEL You can't beat the beehive for glam punkette attitude.
ROB SHEFFIELD The first concert I ever went to was the Bee Gees.
ROB HUEBEL We tell anybody who asks that we think Apple is making a big mistake by not being compatible.
ROB GLASER Never put off til tomorow what can be put off til the day after tomorow
ROB SWEATMAN The times you lived through, the people you shared those times with — nothing brings it all to lif...
ROB SHEFFIELD It’s the same with people who say, ‘Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.’ Even peop...
ROB SHEFFIELD Just because there are celebrities in a movie, it doesn't mean anything. I don't think The A...
ROB PAULSEN Trolling taps into people's desire to poke fun, make trouble and cause annoyance.
ROB MANUEL