Rob Bell Quotes

Necessity, weight, and value are three concepts inextricably bound: only necessity is heavy, and only what is heavy has value.

Size counts. That's all.

The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences.

Scales always lie. They don't make a scale that ever told the truth about value, about worth, about significance.

Don't forget that some things count more than other things.

When you say 'diversity,' the term has been denigrated over the years because it has been used as a crutch.

Nothing was happening, really, but the moment was thick with mattering

What on earth have you packed in here? Bricks?" asked Mo as he carried Meggie's book-box out of the house. You're the one who says books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them," said Meggie.

You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute.

I feel like as a whole, when it comes to the "other" in the US - whatever that looks like for each individual person, whether it be someone who's LGBTQ or someone of color or someone who's just a religion that they've never heard of - whether you're in entertainment or whether you're in any other business, we're not as evolved as we'd like to think.

People are irrelevant. They're as irrelevant as many other prominent leftists are.

Poetry is not a luxury.

You take a book, and what can you do with a book? Can you cook an egg on a book? No. Can you dig a hole? No. Is it a good weapon? No. The fact that it's good for nothing kind of makes it almost all-important.

Thinking about something is like picking up a stone when taking a walk, either while skipping rocks on the beach, for example, or looking for a way to shatter the glass doors of a museum. When you think about something, it adds a bit of weight to your walk, and as you think about more and more things you are liable to feel heavier and heavier, until you are so burdened you cannot take any further steps, and can only sit and stare at the gentle movements of the ocean waves or security guards, thinking too hard bout too many things to do anything else.

Not a stone but has its history.

The poem is important, but not more than the people whose survival it serves.

Ultimately everyone, no matter who you are, we all at our core want to just know that we matter.

Well, write poetry, for God's sake, it's the only thing that matters.

You have to see your unimportance before you can see your importance and your significance to the world.

For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture.

Anything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known.

This does not matter. This is not anything yet. It all depends on what you do with it, afterward.

Small to greater matters must give way.

If it isn't a wonderful story first, who cares how "important" it is?

TDF is more essential today than it was when it was first founded in 1968.