Donald Miller Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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 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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If we knew how much God loved us and was for us, we’d talk to Him all day long.
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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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People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen.
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When we do what God wants us to do, we are blessed, we are spiritually healthy.
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When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.
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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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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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Being a Christian is more like falling in love than understanding a series of ideas.
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I'm not a pastor; I've never been on staff at a church.
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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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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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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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...I want my spirituality to rid me of hate, not give me reason for it.
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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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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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Meaningful stories have lots and lots of conflict. If we avoid conflict, our stories won't be meaningful.
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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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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.