Everything Is Spiritual Quotes

“When I look far enough inside of you, I’ll find me. When I look far enough inside me, I’ll find you.”
― Rob Bell, Everything Is Spiritual: Finding Your Way in a Turbulent World

“Spirit often exposes the assumptions we’ve been living with that we haven’t been aware of.”
― 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

“And then there are those moments when something rises up within you. An itch, an ache, an idea, a restlessness, a longing for more. A conviction that there is something else for you and it’s not here. You can ignore it, deny it, pretend like it isn’t there. But to do that is to let something within you die. Why do some keep going and others stay where they are? Why are some content with how it is, while others have a relentless desire for change and growth and new experiences? Why do some settle, and others want more?”
― Rob Bell, Everything Is Spiritual: Finding Your Way in a Turbulent World

“God is not a question about what may or may not be up there or above or out there— God is what we’re unquestionably in.”
― Rob Bell, Everything Is Spiritual: Finding Your Way in a Turbulent World

“We’re all endlessly figuring it out because Spirit keeps doing something new. We can fight this, resist this, dig in our heels, wish things were the way they used to be, or we can embrace it. We can choose to see it with fear and frustration, or we can see it as thrilling and invigorating. Organizations can keep trying to relive their glory days, wishing things were like they were when they started.”
― Rob Bell, Everything Is Spiritual: Finding Your Way in a Turbulent World

“It’s like I’m figuring it out, but as soon as I do, something shifts, and we get to figure it out all over again. I resist this endless figuring it all out, but over time, it starts to work a kind of magic on me.”
― Rob Bell, Everything Is Spiritual: Finding Your Way in a Turbulent World

“There’s a line in the Bible about the God who is above all and through all and in all. Just one line, but so massive. Above all and through all and in all.”
― Rob Bell, Everything Is Spiritual: Finding Your Way in a Turbulent World

“Spirit often reveals the ways in which we have ever so subtly submitted to the belief that this is just how it is. Spirit refuses to accept that this is just how it is, because spirit is inherently creative.”
― Rob Bell, Everything Is Spiritual: Finding Your Way in a Turbulent World

“I was reading the book of Leviticus and learned that one of its major themes is the importance of sustainably caring for the earth. That’s in the Bible? I then went back to the poem that begins the Bible in the book of Genesis. Yes. It’s there as well. This sacred responsibility to care for the earth. In the Bible, having a healthy and sustainable relationship with the earth is not a cause or political agenda, it’s an obvious and unavoidable fact about human life. Any healthy spiritual vision for life begins with the awareness that everything is connected to everything else, and that begins with us having a healthy connection with the earth.”
― Rob Bell, Everything Is Spiritual: Finding Your Way in a Turbulent World

“Gospel is the divine announcement that you are loved and accepted exactly as you are, that everything has been taken care of, that everything you’ve been striving to earn has been yours the entire time, that you belong, in exactly this condition that you are currently in, nothing additional required or needed.”
― Rob Bell, Everything Is Spiritual: Finding Your Way in a Turbulent World

“You can capture a butterfly, and pin its wings down to study the colors and shape and design, but the moment that butterfly is still and you’re able to make the most precise and detailed observations about that butterfly is the moment the butterfly can’t fly anymore.”
― Rob Bell, Everything Is Spiritual: Finding Your Way in a Turbulent World

“When so much gets left behind, you discover that you’re fine. You’ve got a little fear, like a fly buzzing around your head, but you’re fine. You’re also free. What a gift.”
― Rob Bell, Everything Is Spiritual: Finding Your Way in a Turbulent World

“When we take ourselves too seriously it gets in the way of the thing that we are so seriously trying to do.”
― Rob Bell, Everything Is Spiritual: Finding Your Way in a Turbulent World

“The world is free to be a world. It’s free to be beautiful and safe, and it’s free to break your heart in a thousand ways. That free.”
― Rob Bell, Everything Is Spiritual: Finding Your Way in a Turbulent World

“The universe has been expanding for over thirteen billion years, and we never stop being invited to expand along with it.”
― Rob Bell, Everything Is Spiritual: Finding Your Way in a Turbulent World

“If the only answer ever to anything is You really need to do more and try harder your heart will eventually wear out. Along with your body. And your soul.”
― Rob Bell, Everything Is Spiritual: Finding Your Way in a Turbulent World

“And in response, I had stored up reserves of I’ll show you anger. That’s a particular kind of anger. When you feel like someone wouldn’t let you be you, it strikes at the core of who you are. And that sacred wound can animate all kinds of action. There’s a ton of activating energy there.”
― Rob Bell, Everything Is Spiritual: Finding Your Way in a Turbulent World

“Ever so gradually over time our understanding of ourselves gets shaped by what we do and what we’ve done. We cling, we grasp, we hold tightly to these identities. And then we find ourselves without them. Sometimes because we chose to leave them behind, other times they’re taken away without our consent. I felt so exposed. So vulnerable. I remember my friend Chris telling me that people were asking him, What happened to Rob? As in Where’d he go? as in Is he doing anything? I remember feeling this low-level dread when he told me that. Like a cold shudder. One harmless comment from a friend, and my imagination ran wild with endless ruminations on how to set the record straight and let those people know that I was still in the game. That’s the thing about liminal space: You’re really tender. Raw. Susceptible to those old forces and fears. I didn’t have regret, I was flirting with something far more powerful: fear. Fear that it appeared like I didn’t have any idea what I was doing. Fear that it looked like I couldn’t hack it, so I left. Fear that people thought I was somebody, and then I’d thrown it away. And here’s the killer one: Fear that I appeared to be done.”
― Rob Bell, Everything Is Spiritual: Finding Your Way in a Turbulent World

“because everything is connected to everything else, and the more we know about who and where we come from, the more we know about where we’re headed.”
― Rob Bell, Everything Is Spiritual: Finding Your Way in a Turbulent World

“The moment you pin down the butterfly so that you can carefully study it is the exact moment in which that butterfly can no longer fly. It’s the motion, the movement, the flying, that makes a butterfly a butterfly.”
― Rob Bell, Everything Is Spiritual: Finding Your Way in a Turbulent World

“We spend so much time searching and longing for solid ground, only to discover it’s better than that. There’s Spirit. You try this, you try that. You throw yourself into it, and you hold it loosely. You give it everything you have as you acknowledge that this is what we’re doing now, who knows what will come next?”
― Rob Bell, Everything Is Spiritual: Finding Your Way in a Turbulent World

“That’s what Spirit does, it brings about new creation. And what was true thirteen billion years ago is true now.”
― Rob Bell, Everything Is Spiritual: Finding Your Way in a Turbulent World

“Particles couldn’t contain the fullness of Spirit, and that led to something new.”
― Rob Bell, Everything Is Spiritual: Finding Your Way in a Turbulent World

“In that ancient Genesis poem, this animating energy is called Spirit. And in that poem, Spirit enters and animates forms, which then create new forms.”
― Rob Bell, Everything Is Spiritual: Finding Your Way in a Turbulent World

“This is why loneliness creates such a deep ache in our bones. It’s holding up—and working against—the direction the universe has been heading for over thirteen billion years. Same with racism. Regardless of where we come from or what we look like, we’re all humans, and when humans fail to bond and unite and connect with other humans, that’s going against the direction the universe has been going for thirteen billion years.”
― Rob Bell, Everything Is Spiritual: Finding Your Way in a Turbulent World

“Connection is an engine of creation.”
― Rob Bell, Everything Is Spiritual: Finding Your Way in a Turbulent World

“We crave coming together and connecting with others because this is what the entire universe has been doing for billions and billions and billions of years.”
― Rob Bell, Everything Is Spiritual: Finding Your Way in a Turbulent World

“This is a pattern. Something bonded with something like it, and that introduced something new, something more complex, something that previously didn’t exist. Something the universe had never seen before. All because of a drive. A drive to bond, to unite, to come together. Where does this drive come from? It comes from within. This”
― Rob Bell, Everything Is Spiritual: Finding Your Way in a Turbulent World

“I AM is less noun, more verb. Less a destination and more a direction.”
― Rob Bell, Everything Is Spiritual: Finding Your Way in a Turbulent World