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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 am a person of faith, so I come from a community that's involved in 360,000 churches across the country, that is an institution that could, in a relatively short period of time, provide hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of positive male role models.
Donald Miller
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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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If a piece of genius comes, it comes, and it if doesn't, it doesn't.
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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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What I believe is not what I say I believe; what I believe is what I do. I used to say that I believed it was important to tell people about Jesus, but I never did. A friend kindly explained that if I do not introduce people to Jesus, then I don't believe Jesus is an important person. It doesn't matter what I say. We live for what we believe.
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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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I'm not a pastor; I've never been on staff at a church.
Donald Miller
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When we think too much about the opinions of others, we are letting them edit a book God has written.
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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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If the abortion issue is important to me, this is how you tackle that issue.
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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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All my books have been titled based on a piece of the prose from inside the book.
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Meaningful stories have lots and lots of conflict. If we avoid conflict, our stories won't be meaningful.
Donald Miller
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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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I took William Zinsser's advice that you write to yourself and you hope that there are people out there who are like you.
Donald Miller -
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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Nobody will listen to you unless they sense that you like them.
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When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.
Donald Miller
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We live on top of the created world, I think to myself, not in it.
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Book of Ecclesiastes, God is saying... Write a good story, take somebody with you and let me help.
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I know, from the three visits I made to him, the blended composite of love and fear that exists only in a boy's notion of his father.
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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."
Donald Miller