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It's encouraging to watch what people will do to contribute to a love story. It's as though we universally recognize the union of souls is worth sacrificing for. -- Donald Miller
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It is always the simple things that change our lives. And these things never happen when you are looking for them to happen. Life will reveal answers at the pace life wishes to do so. You feel like running, but life is on a stroll. This is how God does things. -- Donald Miller
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Humans are designed to seek comfort and order, and so if they have comfort and order, they tend to plant themselves, even if their comfort is not all that comfortable, even if they see clearly want for something better. -- Donald Miller
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Even our beliefs have become trend statements. We don't even believe things because we believe them anymore. We only believe things because they are cool things to believe. -- Donald Miller
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What I'm saying is I think life is staggering and we're just used to it. We are all like spoiled children no longer impressed with the gifts we're given - it's just another sunset, just another rainstorm moving in over the mountain, just another child being born, just another funeral. -- Donald Miller
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You'd think God would come right out and tell us what to do in the Bible, but He doesn't. He mostly tells stories, and He rarely stops the story to say what the point is. He just lets the characters and conflict hang in the air like smoke. -- Donald Miller
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They are lonely. I'm not talking about lonely for a lover or a friend. I mean lonely in the universal sense, lonely inside the understanding that we are tiny people on a tiny little earth suspended in an endless void that echoes past stars and stars of stars. -- Donald Miller
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I am quitting this thing, but not what you think. I am not going away. I will give you this, my love, and I will not bargain or barter any longer. I will love you, as sure as He has loved -- Donald Miller
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I felt a long way from the pre-me, the pawn-Christian who was a Republican because my family was Republican, not because I had prayed and asked God to enlighten me about issues concerning the entire world rather than just America. -- Donald Miller
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I don't know why it is, exactly, but the people with the healthiest self-esteem, are also the greatest at intimacy. I'm not talking about arrogant people. I'm talking about people who know they are both good and bad yet believe at the deepest level they are really good for people. -- Donald Miller
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We live on top of the created world, I think to myself, not in it. -- Donald Miller
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Without a positive male role model in your life, it is extremely difficult to become a man who benefits his family and benefits society. -- Donald Miller
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You're assuming that love is a feeling. It isn't. It can involve feelings, but often it doesn't. Love acts out of faith, which rarely involves feelings. Love is action; it's deciding something is true and living out of that belief. -- Donald Miller
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The more I try to impress people, the more I separate myself from them. Vulnerability attracts love. -- Donald Miller
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Half the time I don't know what I'm trying to say. -- Donald Miller
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For a long time, I thought I was good at relationships because I was charming. -- Donald Miller
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I'm starting to wonder if the whole point of life is to be thankful and to live in such a way others are thankful for theirs as well. -- Donald Miller
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You don't realize your story is changing you until you look back. -- Donald Miller
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Too much of our time is spent trying to chart God on a grid, and too little is spent allowing our hearts to feel awe. By reducing Christian spirituality to formula, we deprive our hearts of wonder. -- Donald Miller
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I don't know if there's a healthier way for two people to stay in love than to stop using each other to resolve their unfulfilled longings and, instead, start holding each other closely as they experience them. -- Donald Miller
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Christian spirituality was not a children's story. It wasn't cute or neat. It was mystical and odd and clean, and it was reaching into dirty. There was wonder in it and enchantment. -- Donald Miller
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I want to start replacing my "fix" response with an "enjoy" response and just let people be themselves. -- Donald Miller
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The repentance we are called to is about choosing one audience over another. -- Donald Miller
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I asked God to help me understand the story of the forest and what it means to be a tree in that story. -- Donald Miller
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THE STUFF IT TAKES TO BE INTIMATE IS AUTHENTICITY, vulnerability, and a belief that other people are about as good and bad as we are. -- Donald Miller
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The reason stories have dramatic tension is because LIFE has dramatic tension. -- Donald Miller
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To change the world you'll need a pen. -- Donald Miller
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You cannot be a Christian without being a mystic -- Donald Miller
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Believing in God is as much like falling in love as it is making a decision. Love is both something that happens to you and something you decide upon. -- Donald Miller
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I wondered about the story we were writing and wanted even more to write a better story for myself, something that leaves a beautiful feeling even as the credits roll. -- Donald Miller
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ARTICLE THAT SAID in the next five years we will become a conglomerate of the people we hang out with. The article went so far as to say relationships were a greater predictor of who we will become than exercise, diet, or media consumption. -- Donald Miller
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Life is a story. You and I are telling stories; they may suck, but we are telling stories. And we tell stories about the things that we want. So you go through your bank account, and those are things you have told stories about. -- Donald Miller
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I think Christian spirituality is like jazz music. I think loving Jesus is something you feel. I think it is something very difficult to get on paper. But it is no less real, no less meaningful, no less beautiful. -- Donald Miller
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Right, but you know, what would any of us lose by losing our possessions. Maybe we would gain something, like relationships, like the beauty of good friends, intimacy, you know what I mean, man? Like we wouldn't be losing anything if we lost our stuff, we'd be gaining everything. -- Donald Miller
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And once you live a good story, you get a taste for a kind of meaning in life, and you can't go back to being normal; you can't go back to meaningless scenes stitched together by the forgettable thread of wasted time. -- Donald Miller
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I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago, because a mind was made fo figure things out, not to read the same page recurrently. -- Donald Miller
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I don't trust people to accept who I am in process. I'm the kind of person who wants to present my most honest, authentic self to the world - so I hide backstage and rehearse honest and authentic lines until the curtain opens. -- Donald Miller
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When one of my friends becomes a Christian, which happens about every 10 years because I am a sheep about sharing my faith, the experience is euphoric. I see in their eyes the trueness of the story. -- Donald Miller
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I have friends who are writers, but we don't tend to talk about literature very much. It's just not part of my process; I tend to be pretty secretive about what I'm working on. -- Donald Miller
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I'm convinced every person has a longing that will never be fulfilled and it's our job to let it live and breathe and suffer within it as a way of developing our character. -- Donald Miller
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My broken identity turned me into a manipulator and my romantic life looked like one of those fishing shows on television, a game of catch and release in which I only held the girl long enough to snap a picture. -- Donald Miller
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I think the devil has tricked us into thinking so much of biblical theology is story fit for kids. -- Donald Miller
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In church, the rules of the lifeboat don't apply. Church is the refuge where the Kingdom of God is emulated, not mocked. -- Donald Miller
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I've learned there are givers and takers in this life. I've slowly let the takers go and I've had it for the better. God bless them, when they learn to play by the rules they are welcomed back, but my heart is worth protecting. -- Donald Miller
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We were made to be distracted by life, by story. -- Donald Miller
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Every human being is searching for a deep sense of meaning, and yet we're all chasing success. We've confused one for the other. -- Donald Miller
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By accepting God's love for us, we fall in love with Him, and only then do we have the fuel we need to obey. -- Donald Miller
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There's truth in the idea we're never going to be perfect in love but we can get close. And the closer we get, the healthier we will be. Love is not a game any of us can win, it's just a story we can live and enjoy. -- Donald Miller
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You can't tell a good story without conflict - the story can't be beautiful or meaningful. We're taught to run from conflict, and it's robbing us of some really good stories. -- Donald Miller
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I'm just trying to make the point that the story we're telling ourselves is often very different from the story we're telling the people around us. -- Donald Miller
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There was also no character arc. Change only comes when we face the difficulty of reality head-on. Fantasy changes nothing, which is why, once we're done fantasizing, it feels like a bankrupt story. -- Donald Miller
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We don't need as much as we have. Hardly any of us need as much money as we have. It's true what they say about the best things in life being free. -- Donald Miller
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Sometimes the story we're telling the world isn't half as endearing as the one that lives inside us. -- Donald Miller
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When we look back on our lives, what we will remember are the crazy things we did, the times we worked harder to make a day stand out. -- Donald Miller
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If the Gospel of Jesus is relational, that is, if our brokenness will be fixed not by our understanding of theology but by God telling us who we are, then this would require a kind of intimacy of which only Heaven knows. -- Donald Miller
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SOMEBODY ONCE TOLD ME WE WILL NEVER FEEL loved until we drop the act, until we're willing to show our true selves to the people around us. -- Donald Miller
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I love writing books - I really do. If I could just quit everything and work on a book every day, I would love that most. -- Donald Miller
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Lets choose to do something really difficult, something that saves lives, and let's do that thing with people we love. -- Donald Miller
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For me, the beginning of sharing my faith with people began by throwing out Christianity and embracing Christian spirituality, a nonpolitical mysterious system that can be experienced but not explained. -- Donald Miller
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We don't naturally want to take responsibility for our lives. We want to give the responsibility to someone else. We blame them when our lives aren't good. -- Donald Miller
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I am something of a recluse by nature. I am that cordless screwdriver that has to charge for twenty hours to earn ten minutes use. I need that much downtime. -- Donald Miller
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The backside of Hollywood passion is disappointment and loneliness - and more often than not, resentment and cynicism about the nature of love itself.
Betsy and I were building more of a symphony than a pop song. -- Donald Miller
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When I was in love there was somebody in the world who was more important than me, and that, given all that happened at the fall of man, is a miracle, like something God forgot to curse. -- Donald Miller
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There's a lot of letters, and a lot of people come say "hi" at book signings, but I'm amazed at how normal everybody is. -- Donald Miller
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Her relationships were more about shared memories and common values than about strategic partnerships to help each other succeed. -- Donald Miller
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Most great art is created when the artist feels they are channeling something rather than trying to communicate something. -- Donald Miller
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I knew he wouldn't die, because his life was like the roots of a tree that went miles into the soil and miles around its trunk and came up in my cousins, in their faces and their voices and their character. I didn't think you could kill a tree that big. Not even God could kill a tree that big. -- Donald Miller
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Maybe, these ideas are pointing to something mystical and true. And perhaps i am judging hte idea, not by its merit, but by the fashionable or unfashionable delivery of the message. -- Donald Miller
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It makes me wonder how many people have damaged their own lives by mistaking enablement for grace? -- Donald Miller
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Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself ... -- Donald Miller
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Work on your character and a good life will come to you. -- Donald Miller
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I am human because God made me. I experience suffering and temptation because mankind chose to follow Satan. God is reaching out to me to rescue me. I am learning to trust Him, learning to live by His precepts that I might be preserved. -- Donald Miller
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The times in my life when I have been most happy haven't been the times when I have had the most money or the most freedom or the most anything, but rather when I've been in love or in community or right with people. -- Donald Miller
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There are times in a man's life when he says things he will never be able take back. It's true words can have a physical impact on somebody. A person can concuss with their words. Words can snap as fast as a trap in the woods and leave a victim to writhe for weeks. -- Donald Miller
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I think, in the grand epic, Jesus is the hero of our stories. And our stories, as they were, are subplots in a grand epic and our job is not to be the hero of any story. Our job is to be a saint in a story that he is telling. -- Donald Miller
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It's interesting that in the Bible, in the book of Ecclesiastes, the only practical advice given about living a meaningful life is to find a job you like, enjoy your marriage, and obey God. It's as though God is saying, Write a good story, take somebody with you, and let me help. -- Donald Miller
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There are two types of men in this world
one is looking for a woman to make his life complete and the other is looking for a woman to join his complete life. -- Donald Miller
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Sunday morning church service is not an enormous priority; spending time with other believers is. -- Donald Miller
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To know there is a better story for your life and to choose something other is like choosing to die. -- Donald Miller
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Just out of high school, you didn't realize you were creating drama for the sake of drama. -- Donald Miller
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When you build a city near no mountains and no ocean, you get materialism and traditional religion. People have too much time and lack inspiration. -- Donald Miller
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I think it is easier to do bad things than to do good things. And there is something in that basic fact, some little clue to the meaning of the universe. -- Donald Miller
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I love this about Christian spirituality. It cannot be explained, and yet it is beautiful and true. It is something you feel, and it comes from the soul. -- Donald Miller
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Most great art is freedom within form. Without form, we are amateurs, without freedom, we are robots. -- Donald Miller
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I heard once that real love doesn't ask what is in it for me; it just gives unconditionally. It just tries to take the weight out of somebody else's pack, lessen his load, and if it gets reciprocated, that's great, but that isn't what you did it for. -- Donald Miller
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It costs personal fear to be authentic but the reward is integrity, and by that I mean a soul fully integrated, no difference between his act and his actual person. -- Donald Miller
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Truth grew in my mind like a fungus, and though I tried to sleep it out, there was no resisting the epiphanies. -- Donald Miller
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Tell Me I can't and I will -- Donald Miller
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Fear isn't only a guide to keep us safe; it's also a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life ... the great stories go to those who don't give in to fear. -- Donald Miller
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Jesus does not want us floating through space or sitting in front of our televisions. Jesus wants us interacting, eating together, laughing together, praying together. Loneliness is something that came with the fall. -- Donald Miller
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When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are. -- Donald Miller
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I once listened to an Indian on television say that God was in the wind and the water, and I wondered at how beautiful that was because it meant you could swim in Him or have Him brush your face in a breeze. -- Donald Miller
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The risk of being known is also the decision to be criticized by some. -- Donald Miller
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Without the Christian explanation of original sin, the seemingly silly story of Adam and Eve and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, there was no explanation of conflict. At all. -- Donald Miller
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Remarkably, the most common regret of the dying was this: they wish they'd had the courage to live a life true to themselves and not the life others expected of them. -- Donald Miller
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If you quote a poem in a sermon today, some people think you are being mushy, but if you quoted one back in the day, people would have felt you were getting to the core of an idea, to the real, whole truth of it. -- Donald Miller
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I used to write when I was in the mood or felt inspired. Anymore, I write whether I feel inspired or not. It's a discipline. So that's definitely different. It's part of maturing as a person and as a professional. -- Donald Miller
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Perhaps one of the reasons I've avoided standing on the point toward the horizon is the second you stand up and point toward a horizon, you realize how much there is to lose. -- Donald Miller
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She wanted God to make sense. He doesn't. He will make no more sense to me than I will make sense to an ant. -- Donald Miller
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I suppose building a healthy family is possible. Maybe what children really need is simple. Maybe they just need somebody to show them it's okay to be human. -- Donald Miller
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A person could read the Bible, not to become smart, but rather to feel that they are not alone, that somebody understands them and love them enough to speak to them, on purpose, in a way that makes a person feel human. -- Donald Miller
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I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me -- Donald Miller
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It seems like, if you really knew the God who understands the physics of our existence, you would operate a little more cautiously, a little more compassionately, a little less like you are the center of the universe. -- Donald Miller
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There are about 360,000 churches in America, so we could mentor a million kids within a short period of time if everyone signed on, which, of course, is a pipedream, but we're going to reach toward that. -- Donald Miller
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Real love stories don't have dictators, they have participants. -- Donald Miller
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We have to have positive male role models. -- Donald Miller
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I know a little of why there is blood in my body, pumping life into my limbs and thought into my brain. I am wanted by God. -- Donald Miller
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I learned that true love turns the other cheek, does not take a wrong into account, loves all people regardless of their indifference or hostility. -- Donald Miller
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The reality is people are impressed with all kinds of things: intelligence, power, money, charm, talent, and so on. But the ones we tend to stay in love with are, in the long run, the ones who do a decent job loving us back. -- Donald Miller
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Of his new book, Don says: It might be the greatest book ever written. I don't think anybody is going to read a book again after they read my new one. I think God is proud of me. I am going to make a killing off this thing and I'm going to use the money to go to space. -- Donald Miller
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I think writers would do better to consider that idea [to write to yourself], because you know yourself really well, and you never know your demographic fully. You only get into trouble if you try to please somebody you don't really understand. -- Donald Miller
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I have a pastor friend who says the root of sin is the desire for control. I think there's some truth to that. And I'd add the root of control is fear. -- Donald Miller
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The reason I like writing a memoir is because it isn't preachy. -- Donald Miller
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If I have a hope, it's that God sat over the dark nothing and wrote you and me, specifically, into the story, and put us in with the sunset and the rainstorm as though to say, enjoy your place in my story. The beauty of it means you matter, and you can create within it even as I have created you. -- Donald Miller
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After all, to love somebody is to give them the power to hurt you, and nobody can hurt you if you're the only one writing the script. -- Donald Miller
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I know, from the three visits I made to him, the blended composite of love and fear that exists only in a boy's notion of his father. -- Donald Miller
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Television drives me crazy sometimes because everybody is so good-looking, and yet you walk through the aisles of the grocery stores, and nobody looks like that. -- Donald Miller
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The thing I loved about her was that I never felt like she was selling anything. She would talk to God as if she knew Him, as if she had talked to Him on the phone that day. She was never ashamed which is the thing with some Christians I had encountered. -- Donald Miller
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I tend to connect most easily with two kinds of people, those who are creating something and those who are easily vulnerable. Both trees grow from the same root, I think, and that's the willingness to take risks. -- Donald Miller
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Everybody wants to be somebody fancy. Even if they're shy. -- Donald Miller
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I started 'Storyline' after I'd accomplished all my goals and still wasn't happy. I'd become a 'New York Times' bestselling author, which was my goal from high school, and yet I was less happy after accomplishing my goals than I was before. -- Donald Miller
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When a person has no other persons he invents them because he was not designed to be alone, because it isn't good for a person to be alone. -- Donald Miller
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God is going to reveal me as a flawed human being as fast as he can and he's going to enjoy it because it will force me to grapple with real intimacy. -- Donald Miller
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I love to give charity, but I don't want to be charity. This is why I have so much trouble with grace. -- Donald Miller
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If the time we spend trying to become somebody people will love isn't wasted because the most powerful, most attractive person we can be is who we already are, -- Donald Miller
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When we do what God wants us to do, we are blessed, we are spiritually healthy. -- Donald Miller
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The words alone, lonely, and loneliness are three of the most powerful words in the English language ... those words say that we are human; they are like the words hunger and thirst. But they are not words about the body, they are words about the soul. -- Donald Miller
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Every day you live is a page. Every year, a chapter. Your life, a book. What is it about? -- Donald Miller
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And so I have come to understand that strength, inner strength, comes from receiving love as much as it comes from giving it. -- Donald Miller
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He said, Don, when something hard happens to you, you have two choices in how to deal with it. You can either get bitter, or better. I chose to get better. It's made all the difference. -- Donald Miller
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One of the things I admire most about John is his ability to hold compassion in one hand and justice in the other. He offers both liberally and yet they don't cancel each other out. -- Donald Miller
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Somehow I had come to believe that because a person is in need, they are candidates for sympathy, not just charity. It was not that I wanted to buy her groceries, the government was already doing that. I wanted to buy her dignity. And yet, by judging her, I was the one taking her dignity away. -- Donald Miller
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It's true our lives can pass small and unnoticed by the masses, and we are no less dignified for having lived quietly. In fact, I've come to believe there's something noble about doing little with your life save offering love to a person who is offering it back. -- Donald Miller
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What if we are designed as sensitive antennas, receptors to receive love, a longing we often mistake as a need to be impressive? What if some of the most successful people in the world got that way because their success was fueled by a misappropriated need for love? -- Donald Miller
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I was talking to a homeless man at the laundry mat recently, and he said that when we reduce Christian spirituality to math we defile the Holy. I thought that was very beautiful and comforting because I have never been good at math. -- Donald Miller
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It's possible to do both as a writer - to engage and have a family and all that good stuff - and I chose not to for the sake of the career. -- Donald Miller
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I loved the fact that it wasn't my responsibility to change somebody, that it was God's, that my part was just to communicate love and approval. -- Donald Miller
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When I say I love you and you don't believe me, you're being a jerk. Basically what you're saying is I only love conditionally. You think you're being self-deprecating and funny, but you're really saying I'm not a good enough person to love you if you have a few flaws. It gets old. -- Donald Miller
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The reality is this, though: a healthy person coupled with an unhealthy person will still result in an unhealthy relationship. -- Donald Miller
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She knows who she is. She just forgot for a little while. -- Donald Miller
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I should have people around bugging me and getting under my skin because without people I could not grow - I could not grow in God, and I could not grow as a human. -- Donald Miller
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We would eat chocolates and smoke cigarettes and read the Bible, which is the only way to do it, if you ask me. Don, the Bible is so good with chocolate. I always thought the Bible was more of a salad thing, you know, but it isn't. It is a chocolate thing. We -- Donald Miller
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Everybody has to leave, everybody has to leave their home and come back so they can love it again for all new reasons. -- Donald Miller
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It's all connected with the belief human love is conditional. But human love isn't conditional. No love is conditional. If love is conditional, it's just some sort of manipulation masquerading as love. -- Donald Miller
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But in so many ways I'm still that kid, not sure exactly how to be emotionally intimate with a girl without feeling weak, not sure my work is good enough, not sure if the people who are clapping would really like me if they got to know me (page 2) -- Donald Miller
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Life has a peculiar feel when you look back on it that it doesn't have when you're actually living it. It's as though the whole thing were designed to be understood in hindsight, as though you'll never know the meaning of your experiences until you've had enough of them to provide reference. -- Donald Miller
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It blew my mind that what I was thinking was actually applicable to people's lives, and it certainly revolutionized family. -- Donald Miller
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I listened so hard because it felt like, while she was telling me stories, she was massaging my soul, letting me know that I was not alone, that I will never have to be alone, that there are friends and family and churches and coffee shops. I was not going to be cast into space. -- Donald Miller
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I want to be with people who are humble and hungry, have healthy relationships, and are working to create new and better realities in the world. -- Donald Miller
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I only say this because a positive evolution happened in my life when I realized healthy relationships happen best between healthy people. -- Donald Miller
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IS THERE ANYTHING MORE TOXIC THAN THE FEAR of being judged? Judgment shuts us down and makes us hide. It keeps us from being ourselves, which keeps us from connecting with other people. -- Donald Miller
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I don't read a lot of inspirational books for life. But for writing, I think the two best books are The War of Art and William Zinsser's On Writing Well. I read a lot of classics; -- Donald Miller
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Author Toni Morrison swats aside other possible sources of her success and says that the ONLY reason she is a great writer is because when she walked into a room as a child her father's face lit up. -- Donald Miller
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I think life is staggering and we're just too used to it. -- Donald Miller
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You get a feeling when you look back on life that all God really wants from us is to live inside a body He made, and enjoy the story, and to bond with Him through the experience. -- Donald Miller
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Burying themselves in his arm was more about feeling his love in the confusion, in the difficulty, than it was about having moved past it. -- Donald Miller
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I think our society puts too much pressure on romantic love, and that is why so many romances fail. Romance can't possibly carry all that we want it to. -- Donald Miller
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All this beauty exists so you and I can see His glory, His artwork. It's like an invitation to worship Him, to know Him. -- Donald Miller
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They never tell you when you get born a control freak it will cost you a healthy love life. But it's true. You can't control somebody and have intimacy with them at the same time. They may stay because they fear you, but true love casts out fear. -- Donald Miller
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Here are two things I found taking the long road, though: Applause is a quick fix. And love is an acquired taste. -- Donald Miller
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The principle that characters do not want to change applies to more than just fiction. -- Donald Miller
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There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very authentically looking for truth. -- Donald Miller
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God allows us to face the tension whether we like it or not. -- Donald Miller
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The harshest people I've met over the years have had two things in common: they don't fully trust anybody, and they view relationships as a means to an end. -- Donald Miller
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When I started studying the issue and issues related to fatherlessness, I realized I had all of them. Fear of intimacy, fear of commitment, poor work ethic, just stuff that you don't have when you don't have a man in your life to look you in the eye and say, "You're good," or "Good job." -- Donald Miller
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I began to wonder if becoming a Christian did not work more like falling in love than agreeing with a list of true principles. -- Donald Miller
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Being a Christian is more like falling in love than understanding a series of ideas. -- Donald Miller
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Lucy doesn't read self-help books about how to be a dog; she just is a dog. -- Donald Miller
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It hurts now, but I'll love this memory, I thought to myself. And I do. -- Donald Miller
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Imagine how much a man's life would change if he trusted that he was loved by God. -- Donald Miller
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God doesn't give us crying, pooping children because he wants to advance our careers. -- Donald Miller
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When a relationship is right, it is no more possible to wake up and want out of the marriage than it is to wake up and stop believing in God. What is, is what is. -- Donald Miller
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Finished. If you aren't telling a good story, nobody thinks you died too soon; they just think you died. But my uncle died too soon. The next day, when I was walking with -- Donald Miller
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I can't do it. It would be like, say, trying to fall in love with somebody, or trying to convince yourself that your favorite food is pancakes. You don't decide those things, they just happen to you. If God is real, He needs to happen to me. -- Donald Miller
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I heard my pastor say once, when there were only a few of us standing around, that he hated Bill Clinton. I can understand not liking Clinton's policies, but I want my spirituality to rid me of hate, not give me reason for it. I couldn't deal with that. -- Donald Miller
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All this gave way to my first encounter with guilt, which is still something entirely inscrutable to me, as if aliens were sending transmissions from another planet, telling me there is a right and a wrong in the universe. -- Donald Miller
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I think a lot of the shame-based religious and political methodology has more to do with keeping people contained than with setting them free. And I'm no fan of it. -- Donald Miller
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And what is a story but the wanting for something difficult and the willingness to work for it? -- Donald Miller
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The human body essentially recreates itself every six months. Nearly every cell of hair and skin and bone dies and another is directed to its former place. You are not who you were last November. -- Donald Miller
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The most difficult lie I have ever contended with is this: life is a story about me. -- Donald Miller
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There are things you cannot understand, and you must learn to live with this. Not only must you learn to live with this, you must learn to enjoy this. -- Donald Miller
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I didn't want to live in a broken world or a broken me. I wasn't trying to weasel out of anything, I just wasn't in the mood to be on earth that night. -- Donald Miller
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It is worthy of note that the Chinese and Japanese characters for money and gold are the same. -- Donald Miller
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If I do not introduce people to Jesus, then I don't believe Jesus is an important person. It doesn't matter what I say. -- Donald Miller
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It is a pretty good idea to make some noises when you are at a play. -- Donald Miller
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You can't memorize poetry and stay a fake. Sooner or later, you start to understand what these poets are saying, and it makes you feel life has something quite special, with certain layers of meaning to it. -- Donald Miller
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Reality is like a fine wine," he said to me. "It will not appeal to children. -- Donald Miller
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Almost without exception the most beautiful, selfless people I've met are ones who've experienced personal tragedy. -- Donald Miller
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The heart responds to the conflict within a story. -- Donald Miller
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Love can't be earned, it can only be given. And it can only be exchanged by people who are completely true with each other. -- Donald Miller
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Every creative person, and I think probably every other person, faces resistance when they are trying to create something good ... The harder the resistance, the more important the task must be. -- Donald Miller
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I stay away from churches in which I feel like I have to pretend I'm a better person than I am. That sort of thing moves my faith backwards. -- Donald Miller
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We believe we will be made whole by our accomplishments, our possessions, or our social status. It's written in the fabric of our DNA that life used to be beautiful and now it isn't, and if only this and only that, it would be beautiful again. -- Donald Miller
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When something happens to you, you have two choices in how to deal with it. You can either get bitter, or get better. -- Donald Miller
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Half the time I pick up a book, that's what I'm trying to get. -- Donald Miller
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When you live countless stories in which you play a sedentary role, it's an odd feeling to switch stories. -- Donald Miller
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The same principles that make up a good story also make up a good life. -- Donald Miller
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You never question the truth of something until you have to explain it to a skeptic. -- Donald Miller
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Those of us who are never satisfied with our accomplishments secretly believe nobody will love us unless we're perfect. -- Donald Miller
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One of the things I love about our source text as Christians, the Bible, is that it teaches us not to avoid conflict. And it teaches us that before the fall of man, in Paradise, there was conflict. God wants conflict to be a part of your life. -- Donald Miller
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So I wrote. I wrote as though God thought my voice mattered. I wrote because I believed a human story was beautiful, no matter how small the human was. I wrote because I didn't make myself, God did. And I wrote like he'd invited me to share my true "self" with the world. -- Donald Miller
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Let's show up to life. Let's prove how beautiful it can really be. Let's face the conflict, redeem it, conquer it, and allow it to mold our
character. Let's participate in what God is doing in the world. -- Donald Miller
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The reality is, what writers write and the way they live can be as different as a lump of coal and a diamond. The written life is shined to a deceptive gloss. -- Donald Miller
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People want to join a great story. If you want to lead, tell one with your life. -- Donald Miller
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Andrew would say that dying for something is easy because it is associated with glory. Living for something, Andrew would say, is the hard thing. -- Donald Miller
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I've come to believe a person's love for you can't grow unless you hold that person loosely. -- Donald Miller
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I will love you like God, because of God, mighted by the power of God. I will stop expecting your love, demanding your love, trading for your love, gaming for your love. I will simply love. -- Donald Miller
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People are lonely. They want company and your book can provide them company and a little bit of hope. And there's nothing wrong with that. -- Donald Miller
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A big part of me needed something outside myself to tell me who I was. The thing that had been designed to tell me who I was was gone. -- Donald Miller
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The mountains themselves call us into greater stories. -- Donald Miller
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I think it's very hard for us, for Christians, to understand that it's okay to read a book, for instance, on how to manage your time. There's nothing wrong with that. -- Donald Miller
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I think that's the true litmus test for someone who has become closer to Jesus: their heart is more loving, accepting, childlike, less believing that they have all the answers and more believing in Him. -- Donald Miller
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We shouldn't be afraid to embrace whimsy, that nagging idea that life could be magical; it could be special if we were only willing to take a few risks. -- Donald Miller
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Maybe the reason we like stories so much is because they deliver wish fulfillment. Maybe we sit in the dark and shovel sugar into our mouths because in so many stories everything is made right, and we secretly long for that ourselves. -- Donald Miller
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all of us are living stories, and those stories teach other people to live stories. -- Donald Miller
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The great tragedy of our lives seems to be that we are smart enough to ask the questions of meaning but too dumb to really figure it out. -- Donald Miller
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Nothing is going to change in congo until you and i figure out what is wrong with the person inside the mirror -- Donald Miller
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The problem is not out there; the problem is the needy beast of a thing that lives in my chest. -- Donald Miller
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Frankl went on to say it wasn't pleasure mankind was looking for, that men only sought pleasure when they couldn't find meaning. If a man has no sense of meaning, Frankl argued, he will numb himself with pleasure. -- Donald Miller
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But true intimacy is just like that: it's the food you grow from well-tilled ground. And like most things good for us, it's an acquired taste. -- Donald Miller
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I think understanding your life as a story is a really terrific way of kind of knowing where you are and knowing who you are. -- Donald Miller
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half the feeling of home is usually a person. -- Donald Miller
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At the time, I didn't know what forgiveness meant. I wouldn't really know what forgiveness meant for another year, until my pastor, Rick McKinley, happened to spell it out in a sermon. He said that when you forgive, you bear the burden somebody has given you without holding them accountable. -- Donald Miller
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I liked this God very much because you hardly had to talk to it and it never talked back.
Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality -- Donald Miller
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I began to wonder if what we were doing it evangelical circles had more to do with redeeming ourselves to culture than it did with showing Jesus to a hurting world, a world literally filled with outcasts. -- Donald Miller
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This message God was communicating to mankind, this Gospel of Jesus, was a message to the heart as much as to the head, that the methodology was as important as the message itself, that the message could not be presented accurately outside of the emotions within which these truths were embedded. -- Donald Miller
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I think the things we want most in life, the things we think will set us free, are not the thing we need. -- Donald Miller
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Betsy and I are going to try as hard as we can not to put the burden of that longing on each other," I said. "Instead, we will comfort each other in the longing and even love it for what it is, a promise that God will someday fulfill us. -- Donald Miller
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I kept asking Him to say it again, but He wouldn't. I guess it's because I heard Him the first time, you know. -- Donald Miller
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We were meant to enjoy life, not be drowned by it. -- Donald Miller
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If you want to bond with your friends, do something very hard with them, something that you won't be able to do alone. -- Donald Miller
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Naked people look funny when they are for-real naked, outside-a-magazine naked. -- Donald Miller
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I tend to write first drafts that are incredibly cognitive, very rational, very boring. They come off as justification. Like, 'This is my idea and here's all the reasons that it's right.' It doesn't make for very compelling reading. -- Donald Miller
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The separation of truth from reason is a dangerous game. I think ideas have to sink very deeply into a person's soul, into their being, before they can effect change. -- Donald Miller
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God sat over the dark nothing and wrote you and me specifically into the story, and He put us in specifically with the sunsets in the rainstorms as though to say, Enjoy your place in My story, the very beauty of it means it's not about you, and in time that will give you comfort. -- Donald Miller
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Relationships are teleological. They're all going somewhere and they're turning us into something, hopefully something better, something new. -- Donald Miller
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If you don't feel free and be yourself, you can't connect. Find people who accept your quirks. They'll heal your soul. -- Donald Miller
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The entire world is falling apart because nobody will admit they are wrong. -- Donald Miller
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Most of us are waiting. We're waiting for something interesting to happen. And I think we're going to wait forever if we don't do something more interesting with our lives. -- Donald Miller
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I posted the first three chapters and I had enough people say that chapter two was dragging that I cut it out just before the book went to press. And I'm glad I did. The book is a lot better without it. -- Donald Miller
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There's a genius part of you that wants to create. That part of you wants to talk to God. Get out of the way. -- Donald Miller
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People who live great stories know failure isn't a judgment, it's an education. -- Donald Miller
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I believe the greatest trick of the devil is not to get us into some sort of evil but rather have us wasting time. This is why the devil tries so hard to get Christians to be religious. If he can sink a man's mind into habit, he will prevent his heart from engaging God. I was into habit. -- Donald Miller
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I believe that the greatest trick of the devil is not to get us into some sort of evil but rather have us wasting time. This is why the devil tries so hard to get Christians to be religious. If he can sink a man's mind into habit, he will prevent his heart from engaging God. -- Donald Miller
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The sexual conquest is huge with men in terms of affirming themselves and their feelings of masculinity. That's a misguided kind of affirmation. That is not helpful, but that stuff happens. -- Donald Miller
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Fear is a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life. -- Donald Miller
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If you flatter somebody it will go to their heads. If you love them it will go to their hearts. -- Donald Miller
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Moral #1: "If you work hard, stay focused, and never give up, you will eventually get what you want in life."
Moral #2: Sometimes the things we want most in life are the things that will kill us. -- Donald Miller
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People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen. -- Donald Miller
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God made a whole beautiful earth and decided to put you in it, to experience all of this beauty. You can't do that watching television all the time. -- Donald Miller
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I believed if word got out about grace, the whole church was going to turn into a brothel. -- Donald Miller
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If I use the Bible to prove I am right, I have yet to be humbled by the beautiful truths of the Bible. -- Donald Miller
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My Sunday school teachers had turned Bible narrative into children's fables. They talked about Noah and the ark because the story had animals in it. They failed to mention that this was when God massacred all of humanity. -- Donald Miller
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If we live behind a mask we can impress but we can't connect. -- Donald Miller
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I want my spirituality to rid me of hate, not give me reason for it. -- Donald Miller
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We learn because in doing so we experience something like the pleasure God felt in the act of creation. We discover his handiworks with him. -- Donald Miller
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Reality is like fine wine: it does not appeal to children. -- Donald Miller
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Here's a thing I've noticed: the greatest leaders, the ones who impact the world the most, are somehow able to turn the other cheek. It's as though they believe so solidly in love, so robustly in forgiveness, they have the ability to forgive and even love those who attack them. -- Donald Miller
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The economy is turning around, so that's going to help a little bit. -- Donald Miller
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WHENEVER SOMEBODY STARTS KEEPING SCORE IN a relationship the relationship begins to die. -- Donald Miller
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I have sometimes wondered if the greatest desire of man is to be known and loved anyway. -- Donald Miller
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I took William Zinsser's advice that you write to yourself and you hope that there are people out there who are like you. -- Donald Miller
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If loving other people is a bit of heaven then certainly isolation is a bit of hell, and to that degree, here on earth, we decide in which state we would like to live. -- Donald Miller
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All relationships are living and alive and moving and becoming something. -- Donald Miller
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We don't think of our flaws as the glue that binds us to the people we love, but they are. Grace only sticks to your imperfections. -- Donald Miller
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Jason decided to stop yelling at his daughter and, instead, created a better story to invite her into. -- Donald Miller
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What good does it do to tell somebody to live morally so they can die 50 years later and apparently go to Hell? -- Donald Miller
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If we knew how much God loved us and was for us, we'd talk to Him all day long. -- Donald Miller
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The actual language of life is not the charts and graphs and stuff we map out to feel smart. The hidden language we are speaking is really about negotiating the feeling God used to give us. -- Donald Miller
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I think writers can get a little melodramatic sometimes about their work, and it helps me not to do that, to just say, "Well, this is how I make a living, and I need to become a very good craftsman." -- Donald Miller
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I used to get really ticked about preachers who talked too much about grace, because they tempted me to not be disciplined. I figured what people needed was a kick in the butt, and if I failed at godliness it was because those around me weren't trying hard enough. -- Donald Miller
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When we talk about the decline of the American family, I think we have to go back to the Industrial Revolution. -- Donald Miller
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Meaningful stories have lots and lots of conflict. If we avoid conflict, our stories won't be meaningful. -- Donald Miller
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Pain then, if one could have faith in something greater than himself, might be a path to experiencing a meaning beyond the false gratification of personal comfort. -- Donald Miller
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I think loving Jesus is something you feel. I think it is something very difficult to get on paper. But it is no less real, no less meaningful, no less beautiful. The -- Donald Miller
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Dying for something is easy because it is associated with glory. Living for something is the hard thing. Living for something extends beyond fashion, glory, or recognition. We live for what we believe. -- Donald Miller
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A character is what he does. -- Donald Miller
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Life isn't memorable enough to remember everything. It's not like there are explosions all the time, or dog smoking cigarettes. -- Donald Miller
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I read through the book of Matthew this evening. I was up all night. I couldn't stop reading so I read through Mark. This Jesus of yours is either a madman or the Son of God. Somewhere in the middle of Mark I realized He was the Son of God. -- Donald Miller
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About the time I told God that He didn't exist, I was desperate for an identity. -- Donald Miller
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I don't find anyone more noble than Jesus. -- Donald Miller
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The ambitions we have will become the stories we live. -- Donald Miller
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It's a beautiful moment when somebody wakes up to this reality, when they realize God created them so other people could enjoy them, not just endure them. -- Donald Miller
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Asking forgiveness involves giving power to the person you're seeking forgiveness from. -- Donald Miller
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All my books have been titled based on a piece of the prose from inside the book. -- Donald Miller
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We have to be taught to be good. It doesn't come natural. -- Donald Miller
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Good stories must travel through conflict. And in epic stories, the conflict must become unbearable. -- Donald Miller
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If you have a beautiful story, it has to have conflict. If you don't have conflict, it can't be a good story. -- Donald Miller
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I always thought the Bible was more of a salad thing, you know, but it isn't. It's a chocolate thing. -- Donald Miller
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It is when people do not allow God to show up through them ... that the world collapses in on itself. -- Donald Miller
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If the abortion issue is important to me, this is how you tackle that issue. -- Donald Miller
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I could not have known then that everybody, every person, has to leave, has to change like seasons; they have to or they die. The seasons remind me that I must keep changing. -- Donald Miller
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Because it is so scatterbrained and has absolutely no charts and graphs, I'm actually quite surprised the Bible sells. -- Donald Miller
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We don't know how much we are capable of loving until the people we love are being taken away, until a beautiful story is ending. -- Donald Miller
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I know now, from experience, that the path to joy winds through this dark valley. I think every well-adjusted human being has dealt squarely with his or her own depravity. -- Donald Miller
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The most often repeated commandment in the Bible is "Do not fear." It's in there over two hundred times. -- Donald Miller
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people can't live without a story, without a role to play. -- Donald Miller
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Some people skip through life; some people are dragged through it. -- Donald Miller
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Relationships unlock certain parts of who we are supposed to be. -- Donald Miller
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Of all the principles I'd learn about story, the idea that a character is what he does remains the hardest to actually live. -- Donald Miller
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Maybe life isn't meaningless ... Maybe just YOUR life is meaningless -- Donald Miller
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God has spoken, and when God speaks, the majority has spoken. -- Donald Miller
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But that's done now," Jason said, shaking his head. "No girl who plays the role of a hero dates a guy who uses her. She knows who she is. She just forgot for a little while." Part Two A Character -- Donald Miller
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Let probability and sample size do the heavy lifting. -- Donald Miller
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Job found contentment and even joy, outside the context of comfort, health or stability. He understood the story was not about him, and he cared more about the story then he did about himself. -- Donald Miller
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It confuses me that Christian living is not simpler. The gospel, the very good news, is simple. -- Donald Miller
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Great writers know what to cut out. It's the same in life. Clear ambitions. Clear relationships. This is the stuff of good story. -- Donald Miller
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The most attractive characteristic in a person is the story they are telling the world. We stop and stare at stories. -- Donald Miller
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Our lives have a countdown clock that we can't see. Mine reminds me to only do work that matters. -- Donald Miller
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It's funny what happens to you when part of your heart gets born inside somebody else. -- Donald Miller
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Your life is a blank page. You write on it. -- Donald Miller
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It wasn't necessary to win for the story to be great, it was only necessary to sacrifice everything. -- Donald Miller
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A beggar's kingdom is better than a proud man's delusion. -- Donald Miller
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He said to me I was a tree in a story about a forest, and that it was arrogant of me to believe any differently. And he told me the story of the forest is better than the story of the tree. -- Donald Miller
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Perhaps that's another reason true intimacy is so frightening. It's the one thing we all want, and must give up control to get. -- Donald Miller
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It is no coincidence that Jesus talks endlessly about love. Free love. Unconditional love. -- Donald Miller
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I had some friends commenting me books, but mostly it was people I didn't know. But they're fans. They're fans of the books, so they have a working knowledge of how I write, and they know what they like and what they don't like. I'm really grateful for their feedback. -- Donald Miller
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The very scary thing about religion, to me, is that people actually believe God is who they think He is. -- Donald Miller
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But the people who took the bus didn't experience the city as we experienced the city. The pain made the city more beautiful. The story made us different characters than we would have been if we had skipped the story and showed up at the ending an easier way. -- Donald Miller
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Self-discipline will never make us feel righteous or clean; accepting God's love will. -- Donald Miller
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Christians might say that you can't live a more meaningful life without Jesus. Well, that's absolutely not true. You can. You can enjoy a sunrise whether you know Jesus or not. -- Donald Miller
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A good story makes you thankful to be alive because it reminds you that while sometimes painful, life is indeed beautiful and even magical. -- Donald Miller
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THE LAST THING I LEARNED ABOUT RELATIONSHIPS by swimming in the pond was there are more lifeguards than sharks. What I mean is, for the most part, other people aren't out to get us. -- Donald Miller
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A story is a character who wants something and overcomes conflict to get it. -- Donald Miller
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People attack out of fear. -- Donald Miller
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When we think too much about the opinions of others, we are letting them edit a book God has written. -- Donald Miller
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If you work hard, stay focused, and never give up, you will eventually get what you want in life. -- Donald Miller
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Love makes us both strong and weak at the same time. I -- Donald Miller
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If we are not willing to wake up in the morning and die to ourselves, perhaps we should ask ourselves whether or not we are really following Jesus. -- Donald Miller
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Sometimes the real bonding happens in conversations about nothing, Don," she said. "Sometimes being willing to talk about nothing shows how much we want to be with each other. And that's a powerful thing. -- Donald Miller
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Paul was terribly personal. The books I like are the ones that make you feel like you are with a person who is being quite vulnerable, telling you all sorts of stuff that is personal, and that's the thing Paul did that makes me like him. -- Donald Miller
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The point of a story is never about the ending, remember. It's about your character getting -- Donald Miller
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Darius Goes West. -- Donald Miller
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Ultimately, I believe that God loves and wants a relationship with every human being, but with Laura I could feel God's urgency. -- Donald Miller
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I'm not a pastor; I've never been on staff at a church. -- Donald Miller
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Today I wonder why it is God refers to Himself as 'Father' at all. This, to me, in light of the earthly representation of the role, seems a marketing mistake. -- Donald Miller
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The human heart uses the tools of reality to create elements of story, and the human heart responds to climax in the structure of story, this means that climax, or point of decision, could very well be something that exists in the universe. -- Donald Miller
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And when you find love, or when you are mature enough to understand it, the feeling you get is gratitude. -- Donald Miller
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Don't let go of your strength or your beauty. It was given to you by God. -- Donald Miller
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I think each of us can, through our writing, discover our super power -- Donald Miller
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One of the things I associate with God is a sunrise. How many sunrises have you missed over the years, and God created that? -- Donald Miller
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There is something inside me, some selfish beast of a subtle thing that doesn't like truth at all because it carries responsibility. -- Donald Miller
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Grace only sticks to our imperfections. Those who can't accept their imperfections can't accept grace either. -- Donald Miller
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And that makes me wonder if what we really want from the formulas are the wishes, not God. It makes me wonder if what we really want is control, not a relationship. -- Donald Miller
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Meaning is something we experience more than we attain. It's like finding a nice, easy current in a river that carries you through life. -- Donald Miller
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I thought about how there are so many lies in fear. So much deception. What else keeps us from living a better story than fear? -- Donald Miller
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I began to wonder what life would be like if I dropped the act and began to trust that being myself would be enough to get the love I needed. -- Donald Miller
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Imagine, a Being with a mind as great as God's, with feet like trees and a voice like rushing wind, telling you that you are His cherished creation. -- Donald Miller
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THINGS JESUS NEVER SAID: You should come with me to church. -- Donald Miller
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The early bird catches the worm. But I have never been one for worms. I am not sure what the late bird catches but I will feast with him today. Probably porridge. -- Donald Miller
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Having integrity is about being the same person on the inside that we are on the outside, and if we don't have integrity, life becomes exhausting. -- Donald Miller
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G. K. Chesterton says chess players go crazy, not poets. I think he is right. -- Donald Miller
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Sometimes our identities get distorted because people lie about us and scare us, and sometimes our identities get distorted because of things we've actually done. The result is the same, though. Isolation. -- Donald Miller
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I often learn more about myself from listening to the life story of a friend than I do reflecting on my own story. -- Donald Miller
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But it's better when you have somebody to go home to and talk about it with, somebody who is more in love with you than impressed by you. -- Donald Miller
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I wondered how beautiful it might be to think of others as more important than myself. I wondered at how peaceful it might be not to be pestered by that childish voice that wants for pleasure and attention. -- Donald Miller
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Be encouraged. Your heart is writing a poem on the world and it's being turned into a thousand songs. -- Donald Miller
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If a piece of genius comes, it comes, and it if doesn't, it doesn't. -- Donald Miller
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The most important thing that happens within Christian spirituality is when a person falls in love with Jesus. -- Donald Miller
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You're always weighing whether you should be that accessible or not, but my personality is naturally just to throw it all out there, so I'm much more comfortable with doing thatmy personality is naturally just to throw it all out there, so I'm much more comfortable with doing that. -- Donald Miller
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As long as you're willing to turn the other cheek with the mean ones, vulnerability can get you a wealth of friends. -- Donald Miller
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He captures memories because if he forgets them, it's as though they didn't happen. -- Donald Miller
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Life no longer felt meaningless. It felt stressful and terrifying, but it definitely didn't feel meaningless. -- Donald Miller
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She said I didn't have to perform for her. She didn't have to say that. I knew it was true. Who else do you marry but the person who pulls you off the stage? -- Donald Miller
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I've never walked out of a meaningless movie thinking ALL movies are meaningless. I only thought the movie I walked out on was meaningless. I wonder, then, if when people say life is meaningless, what they really mean is THEIR lives are meaningless. -- Donald Miller
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It made me wonder if the reasons our lives seem so muddled is because we keep walking into scenes in which we, along with the people around us, have no clear idea what we want. -- Donald Miller
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place. I wondered whether a person could plan a story for his life and live it intentionally. -- Donald Miller
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Passion about nothing is like pouring gasoline in a car without wheels. It isn't going to lead anybody anywhere. -- Donald Miller
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The magical proposition of the gospel, once free from the clasps of fairy tale, was very adult to me, very gritty like something from Hemingway or Steinbeck, -- Donald Miller
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I am a person of faith, so I come from a community that's involved in 360,000 churches across the country, that is an institution that could, in a relatively short period of time, provide hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of positive male role models. -- Donald Miller
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I wonder if what might help couples build great families is to pick a place for their family to go and then hit the gas, to work toward their vision and build it out. -- Donald Miller
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All relationships are teleological, are going somewhere. -- Donald Miller
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It's one thing to impress people, but it's another to love them. -- Donald Miller
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The people I used to be surrounded by are getting along without me. Somehow, that really bugs me. -- Donald Miller
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The whole idea of everybody wanting to be somebody new was an important insight in terms of liking God -- Donald Miller
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Jesus had no regard for the lifeboat politics you and I live within every day. -- Donald Miller
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Unless we're honest with each other, we can't connect. We can't be intimate. -- Donald Miller
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Somehow we realize that great stories are told in conflict, but we are unwilling to embrace the potential greatness of the story we are actually in. We think God is unjust, rather than a master storyteller. -- Donald Miller
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It's something you can actually control. With writing, it feels like it's given to you, and when the good stuff hits, it feels like it's coming from some other planet.And you're just channeling it. -- Donald Miller
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There are no shadows in our family," Paul said. "We don't hide anything. But that's a tough place to get to. It takes work and it's painful. -- Donald Miller
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It isn't about what you don't get done; it's about what you do get done. -- Donald Miller
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My faith teaches me that the path to join souls in love must of necessity involve a crucifixion, and I think there's a metaphor in there for marriage. -- Donald Miller
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What I believe is not what I say I believe; what I believe is what I do. -- Donald Miller
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It was a haunting feeling, the sort of sensation you get when you wonder whether you are two people, the other of which does things you can't explain, bad and terrible things. -- Donald Miller
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If you buy the website, maybe you'll do something with it. But so far I haven't; we'll see. -- Donald Miller
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I don't believe we are accidents in the world, and I don't believe we were supposed to be actors either. I think we were supposed to be ourselves and we were meant as a miracle. -- Donald Miller
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Shame, he said, caused me to hide. "And that," he said, "is a problem. Because the more we hide, the harder it is to be known. And we have to be known to connect. -- Donald Miller
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I need for there to be something bigger than me. I need someone to put awe inside me; I need to come second to someone who has everything figured out. -- Donald Miller
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I lay there under the stars and thought of what a great responsibility it is to be human. -- Donald Miller
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I'd learned my default mode was to perform. Even in small groups I feel like I have to be "on." But when I'm alone my energy comes back. When I'm alone I don't have to perform for anybody. -- Donald Miller
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Anybody who wants to get their way says that Jesus supports their view. But that isn't Jesus' fault. -- Donald Miller
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All the trees are losing their leaves, and not one of them is worried. -- Donald Miller
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The downside of being a writer is you get plenty of time to overthink your life. -- Donald Miller
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I used love like money, but love doesn't work like money. It is not a commodity. When we barter with it, we all lose. When the church does not love it's enemies, it fuels their rage. It makes them hate us more. -- Donald Miller
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If you aren't telling a good story, nobody thinks you died too soon; they just think you died. -- Donald Miller
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My uncle told a great story with his life, but I think there was such a sadness at his funeral because his story wasn't finished. If you aren't telling a good story, nobody thinks you died too soon; they just think you died. But my uncle died too soon. -- Donald Miller
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What do you want your marriage to look like? he repeated. I'd never thought about it. I'd spent countless -- Donald Miller
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The inciting incident is how you get (characters) to do something. It's the doorway through which they can't return, you know. The story takes care of the rest. -- Donald Miller
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The times we worked harder to make the day stand out.
our story demanded that we change and so we did. -- Donald Miller
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[A safe person] is somebody who speaks the truth in grace. -- Donald Miller
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And stories are all about conflict. -- Donald Miller
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A half million books, all of them smelling like dust and ink, two terrible smells that blend mystically to make something beautiful. -- Donald Miller
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I was starting to believe I was a character in a greater story, which is why the elements of story made sense in the first place. -- Donald Miller
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I had always suspected language was quite limited in its ability to communicate the intricate mysteries of truth. -- Donald Miller
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If what you are doing is important, you will encounter resistance. If what you are doing isn't important it will be easy. -- Donald Miller
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Some people skip through life. Others are dragged through it. I sometimes wonder if we are moving through time, or whether time is moving through us. Light, unlike anything else in the universe is not effected by time. Light exists outside of time.. It is still a mystery to physicists. -- Donald Miller
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I don't have to watch the evening news to see that the world is bad, I only have to look at myself. -- Donald Miller
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A character who wants something and overcomes conflict to get it is the basic structure of a good story. -- Donald Miller
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90 percent of people's problems could be prevented if they'd choose healthier people to give their hearts to. -- Donald Miller
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Flattery has a short battery life, but reminding people they are amazing and precious and wanted and works of art can truly change their lives. -- Donald Miller
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Telling the truth is the slow, mundane, difficult route to a meaningful life. Anything else is cheating. -- Donald Miller
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Good writers show rather than tell. Stories are told in action. Life stories are no different. -- Donald Miller
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what our stories are about matters, not just for us but for the world. -- Donald Miller
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How disappointing would it be get to heaven and find out God created life to be enjoyed while all we did was worry? -- Donald Miller
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And that's the tricky thing about life, really, that the things we want most will kill us. -- Donald Miller
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Nobody will listen to you unless they sense that you like them. -- Donald Miller
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And once you know what it takes to live a better story, you don't have a choice. Not living a better story would be like deciding to die, deciding to walk around numb until you die, and it's not natural to want to die. -- Donald Miller
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It occurs to me it is not so much the aim of the devil to lure me with evil as it is to preoccupy me with the meaningless. -- Donald Miller
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The strongest character in a story isn't the hero, it's the guide. -- Donald Miller
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I told her how frustrating it is to be a Christian in America, and how frustrated I am with not only the church's failures concerning human rights, but also my personal failure to contribute to the solution. -- Donald Miller
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Your problem is not that God is not fulfilling, your problem is that you are spoiled. -- Donald Miller
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If honesty is the key to intimacy, it means we don't have to be perfect and, moreover, we don't have to pretend to be perfect. -- Donald Miller
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What do markets do? They consolidate, they breakout, they extend, they overextend, they back and fill, they consolidate, and repeat the process. That's all you need to know about the markets. -- Donald Miller
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WE'RE ALL AMATEURS WHEN IT COMES TO LOVE and relationships. I -- Donald Miller
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A story is based on what people think is important, so when we live a story, we are telling people around us what we think is important. -- Donald Miller