Donald Miller Quotes
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One of the things I associate with God is a sunrise. How many sunrises have you missed over the years, and God created that?
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True intimacy, the exchange of affection between two people who are not lying, is transforming.
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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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The most important thing that happens within Christian spirituality is when a person falls in love with Jesus.
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There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing.
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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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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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All my books have been titled based on a piece of the prose from inside the book.
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Nobody will listen to you unless they sense that you like them.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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Most great art is created when the artist feels they are channeling something rather than trying to communicate something.
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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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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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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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THINGS JESUS NEVER SAID: "You should come with me to church.
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I think writers would do better to consider that idea [to write to yourself], because you know yourself really well, and you never know your demographic fully. You only get into trouble if you try to please somebody you don't really understand.
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We live on top of the created world, I think to myself, not in it.
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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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If we knew how much God loved us and was for us, we’d talk to Him all day long.