Donald Miller Quotes
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Every human being is searching for a deep sense of meaning, and yet we're all chasing success. We've confused one for the other.
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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.
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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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My most recent faith struggle is not one of intellect. I don’t really do that anymore. Sooner or later you just figure out there are some guys who don’t believe in God and they can prove He doesn't exist, and there are some other guys who do believe in God and they can prove He does exist, and the argument stopped being about God a long time ago and now it’s about who is smarter, and honestly I don’t care.
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Half the time I don't know what I'm trying to say.
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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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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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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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If we knew how much God loved us and was for us, we’d talk to Him all day long.
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I always thought the Bible was more of a salad thing, you know, but it isn't. It's a chocolate thing.
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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.
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But the people who took the bus didn't experience the city as we experienced the city. The pain made the city more beautiful. The story made us different characters than we would have been if we had skipped the story and showed up at the ending an easier way.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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Nobody will listen to you unless they sense that you like them.
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Job found contentment and even joy, outside the context of comfort, health or stability. He understood the story was not about him, and he cared more about the story then he did about himself.
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THINGS JESUS NEVER SAID: "You should come with me to church.
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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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True intimacy, the exchange of affection between two people who are not lying, is transforming.
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All my books have been titled based on a piece of the prose from inside the book.