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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Everybody wants to be somebody fancy. Even if they're shy.
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Everybody has to leave, everybody has to leave their home and come back so they can love it again for all new reasons.
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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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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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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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The most important thing that happens within Christian spirituality is when a person falls in love with Jesus.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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In an age in which we can project an image and score that image based on immediate Facebook and Twitter feedback, thus making a video game of life and a false-reality composed of lies, what gets lost is a joyful obsession with the work we create from the purest of motives, a sheer joy in the act of creation itself that causes us to lose ourselves in something else, and in a way die to ourselves over the absolute love of a thing we are breathing into life.
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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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If a piece of genius comes, it comes, and it if doesn't, it doesn't.
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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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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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There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very authentically looking for truth.
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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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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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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.