Donald Miller Quotes
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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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True intimacy, the exchange of affection between two people who are not lying, is transforming.
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I listened so hard because it felt like, while she was telling me stories, she was massaging my soul, letting me know that I was not alone, that I will never have to be alone, that there are friends and family and churches and coffee shops. I was not going to be cast into space.
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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 most attractive characteristic in a person is the story they are telling the world. We stop and stare at stories.
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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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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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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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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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Be encouraged. Your heart is writing a poem on the world and it's being turned into a thousand songs.
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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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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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If a piece of genius comes, it comes, and it if doesn't, it doesn't.
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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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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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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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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'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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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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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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We live on top of the created world, I think to myself, not in it.
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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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All my books have been titled based on a piece of the prose from inside the book.