Donald Miller Quotes
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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.
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People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen.
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...I want my spirituality to rid me of hate, not give me reason for it.
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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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True intimacy, the exchange of affection between two people who are not lying, is transforming.
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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.
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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."
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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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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.
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Half the time I don't know what I'm trying to say.
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All my books have been titled based on a piece of the prose from inside the book.
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THINGS JESUS NEVER SAID: "You should come with me to church.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I think the best thing a person can do is to read through the Gospels in the Bible and really look at Jesus, because if a person does this, they will realize that the Jesus they learned about in Sunday school or the Jesus they hear jokes about or the skinny, Gandhi Jesus that exists in their imaginations isn't anything like the real Jesus at all.
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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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We live on top of the created world, I think to myself, not in it.
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If we knew how much God loved us and was for us, we’d talk to Him all day long.
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Meaningful stories have lots and lots of conflict. If we avoid conflict, our stories won't be meaningful.
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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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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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Nobody will listen to you unless they sense that you like them.
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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.