Donald Miller Quotes
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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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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.
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I'm amazed at how much my writing is improved when I step away from the computer, even in small amounts. If I'm stuck, I vacuum the living room or walk the dog. I'm amazed at what comes out of that... We have to realize that part of the writing life where we're sitting down at the computer is harvesting the crops, but you have to have planted them and watered them and created fertile soil - and that's a life.
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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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You cannot be a Christian without being a mystic.
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Most great art is created when the artist feels they are channeling something rather than trying to communicate something.
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Sunday morning church service is not an enormous priority; spending time with other believers is.
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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.
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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.
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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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THINGS JESUS NEVER SAID: "You should come with me to church.
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Do I still think there will be a day when all the wrongs are made right, when our souls find the completion they are looking for? I do. But when all things are made right, it won’t be because of some preacher or snake-oil salesman or politician or writer making promises in his book. I think, instead, this will be done by Jesus. And it will be at a wedding. And there will be a feast.
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The truth is, if what we choose to do with our lives won't make a story meaningful, it won't make a life meaningful either.
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The most important thing that happens within Christian spirituality is when a person falls in love with Jesus.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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Everybody wants to be somebody fancy. Even if they're shy.
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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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We live on top of the created world, I think to myself, not in it.