Donald Miller Quotes
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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.
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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 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 want my spirituality to rid me of hate, not give me reason for it.
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The truth is, if what we choose to do with our lives won't make a story meaningful, it won't make a life meaningful either.
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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 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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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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Meaningful stories have lots and lots of conflict. If we avoid conflict, our stories won't be meaningful.
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Some people skip through life. Others are dragged through it. I sometimes wonder if we are moving through time, or whether time is moving through us. Light, unlike anything else in the universe is not effected by time. Light exists outside of time.. It is still a mystery to physicists.
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You're always weighing whether you should be that accessible or not, but my personality is naturally just to throw it all out there, so I'm much more comfortable with doing thatmy personality is naturally just to throw it all out there, so I'm much more comfortable with doing that.
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The trouble with deep belief is that it costs something. And there is something inside me, some selfish beast of a subtle thing that doesn't like the truth at all because it carries responsibility, and if I actually believe these things I have to do something about them. It is so, so cumbersome to believe anything. And it isn't cool.
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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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My Sunday school teachers had turned Bible narrative into children's fables. They talked about Noah and the ark because the story had animals in it. They failed to mention that this was when God massacred all of humanity.
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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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There's a lot of letters, and a lot of people come say "hi" at book signings, but I'm amazed at how normal everybody is.
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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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If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation.
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When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.
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We don't need as much as we have. Hardly any of us need as much money as we have. It's true what they say about the best things in life being free.
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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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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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Meaning is something we experience more than we attain. It's like finding a nice, easy current in a river that carries you through life.
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Being a Christian is more like falling in love than understanding a series of ideas.