Donald Miller Quotes
-
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.
-
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.
-
There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing.
-
Half the time I pick up a book, that's what I'm trying to get.
-
You never question the truth of something until you have to explain it to a skeptic.
-
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.
-
Fear is a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life.
-
I have sometimes wondered if the greatest desire of man is to be known and loved anyway.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Self – discipline will never make us feel righteous or clean; accepting God's love will.
-
And so I have come to understand that strength, inner strength, comes from receiving love as much as it comes from giving it.
-
Your life is a blank page. You write on it.
-
People who live great stories know failure isn’t a judgment, it’s an education.
-
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.
-
It is worthy of note that the Chinese and Japanese characters for money and gold are the same.
-
When we do what God wants us to do, we are blessed, we are spiritually healthy.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.