"I would say that the powerful, revolutionary thing about Jesus' message is that he says, 'What do you do with the people that aren't like you? What do you do with the Other? What do you do with the person that's hardest to love?' . . . That's the measure of a good religion, is - you can love the people who are just like you; that's kind of easy. So what Jesus does is takes the question and talks about fruit. He's interested in what you actually produce. And that's a different discussion. How do we love the people in the world that are least like us?"

Source : "Rob Bell Comes Out for Marriage Equality" by Greg Carey, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2013.

Rob Bell

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“I account this body nothing but a close prison to my soul; and the earth a larger prison to my body. I may not break prison till I be loosed by death; but I will leave it, not unwillingly,when I am loosed.”
“I wouldn't consider myself a songwriter at all. Maybe I piece together a certain little thing here and there, but songwriters are people who do this with sheet music.”

Source : "Missed Opportunities". Pitchfork Interview, pitchfork.com.
“As commonly understood, creationism involves belief in an earth formed only about ten thousand years ago, an interpretation of the Bible that is still very popular. For the record, I have no reason to doubt that the universe is the billions of years old that physicists say it is. Further, I find the idea of common descent (that all organisms share a common ancestor) fairly convincing, and have no particular reason to doubt it.”

Source : "Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution". Book by Michael Behe, 1996.
“Issue a blanket pardon. Forgive everyone who has ever hurt you in any way. Forgiveness is a perfectly selfish act. It sets you free from the past.”
“When you and I hurt deeply, what we really need is not an explanation from God but a revelation of God. We need to see how great God is; we need to recover our lost perspective on life. Things get out of proportion when we are suffering, and it takes a vision of something bigger than ourselves to get life's dimensions adjusted again”

Source : Warren W. Wiersbe (2012). “Looking Up When Life Gets You Down”, p.53, Baker Books
“Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life - it gave me me. It provided me the time and experience and failures and triumphs and friends who helped me step into the shape that had been waiting for me all my life.”
“All the dreamers in all the world are dizzy in the noodle.”

Source : "Fictional character: Fairy Godmother". TV Special "Cinderella", www.imdb.com. March 31, 1957.
“My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918.”

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