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The trouble with deep belief is that it costs something. And there is something inside me, some selfish beast of a subtle thing that doesn't like the truth at all because it carries responsibility, and if I actually believe these things I have to do something about them. It is so, so cumbersome to believe anything. And it isn't cool.
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Instead of asking what it feels like to follow God or be used by God, we should be asking who God is, and whether we really know Him. Everything else will take care of itself.
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.
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If honesty is the key to intimacy, it means we don't have to be perfect and we don't have to pretend to be perfect.
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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.
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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.
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There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing.
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Be encouraged. Your heart is writing a poem on the world and it's being turned into a thousand songs.
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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.
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I have sometimes wondered if the greatest desire of man is to be known and loved anyway.
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Fear is a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life.
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If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation. If I got any comfort as I set out on my first story, it was that in nearly every story, the protagonist is transformed. He's a jerk at the beginning and nice at the end, or a coward at the beginning and brave at the end. If the character doesn't change, the story hasn't happened yet. And if story is derived from real life, if story is just condensed version of life then life itself may be designed to change us so that we evolve from one kind of person to another.
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Half the time I don't know what I'm trying to say.
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We don't think much about how our love stories will affect the world, but they do. Children learn what's worth living for and what's worth dying for by the stories they watch us live. I want to teach our children how to get scary close, and more, how to be brave. I want to teach them that love is worth what it costs.
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You never question the truth of something until you have to explain it to a skeptic.
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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.
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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.
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Self – discipline will never make us feel righteous or clean; accepting God's love will.
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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.
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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.
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It wasn't necessary to win for the story to be great, it was only necessary to sacrifice everything.
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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.
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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.
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All relationships are living and alive and moving and becoming something.
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