Donald Miller Quotes
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.
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My first car was an '84 Ford Taurus. It caught on fire from me trying to change the fuel pump, so that wasn't good at all. Dried leaves on the ground while I was trying to change the fuel pump. Don't do that. Do it on concrete.
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But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened. I'm a part of the music that happened. My voice is one more instrument, is what it is. So that's the way I feel about people who play on sessions.
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We don't expect every operator to be Christian, but we tell them we do expect them to operate on Christian principles.
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In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'
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Morrissey wrote a really gorgeous song for me. I'm crazy for that man. And he thinks I'm hip!
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I was a temp secretary for a long time, and I went at it with a passion, and I tried to do a nice job in all my jobs.
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A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.
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As long as I love Beauty I am young.
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It is no surprise that companies do not often respond to moral pressure alone. We need to hit them hard in their pocketbook and on their balance sheet. We need to show them that their stock prices will be affected if their actions encourage Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions.
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Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.
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I think a lot of people are drawn to seeing people that want to be better. We see it in ourselves.
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It seems like the good things that have happened in my career are things that you don't try to plan and push, and make it happen, it just seems to happen.
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Often something more simple would be better. Sometimes I put things together - a shirt, a sweater, a jacket - and it's too complicated. I would have worn only a v-neck sweater, it would have been better. It's not the clothes but it's how you wear them sometimes.
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Spiritual formation is character formation. Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It's like education. Everyone gets an education; it's just a matter of which one you get.
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Violence is a tool of the ignorant.
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We talking about revolution because that's the era that you're caught in.
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If I didn't love the hourglass, I wouldn't love myself.
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It's always nice when people say nice things or are complimentary.
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The best start-ups might be considered slightly less extreme kinds of cults. The biggest difference is that cults tend to be fanatically wrong about something important. People at a successful start-up are fanatically right about something those outside it have missed.
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I don't really look into the past too much.
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When people arrive at El Bulli, everybody goes through the kitchen. It's a way of making them feel at home. When they leave, the only thing I ask is whether they've been happy. Everything in between, I don't particularly care.
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I realised there were no good role models for kids. Popeye eats spinach, but also smokes and hits people.
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Women have full equality with men before the Lord. By nature, the roles of women differ from those of men. This knowledge has come to us with the Restoration of the gospel in the fullness of times, with an acknowledgment that women are endowed with the great responsibilities of motherhood and nurturing.
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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.
