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Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Donald Miller
Donald Miller Famous Quotes & Sayings
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The great tragedy of our lives seems to be that we are smart enough to ask the questions of meaning but too dumb to really figure it out.
Grace only sticks to our imperfections. Those who can't accept their imperfections can't accept grace either.
Perhaps that's another reason true intimacy is so frightening. It's the one thing we all want, and must give up control to get.
Relationships are teleological. They're all going somewhere and they're turning us into something, hopefully something better, something new.
What good does it do to tell somebody to live morally so they can die 50 years later and apparently go to Hell?
When something happens to you, you have two choices in how to deal with it. You can either get bitter, or get better.
In church, the rules of the lifeboat don't apply. Church is the refuge where the Kingdom of God is emulated, not mocked.
Meaningful stories have lots and lots of conflict. If we avoid conflict, our stories won't be meaningful.
I know a little of why there is blood in my body, pumping life into my limbs and thought into my brain. I am wanted by God.
I learned that true love turns the other cheek, does not take a wrong into account, loves all people regardless of their indifference or hostility.
If what you are doing is important, you will encounter resistance. If what you are doing isn't important it will be easy.
Great writers know what to cut out. It's the same in life. Clear ambitions. Clear relationships. This is the stuff of good story.
But it's better when you have somebody to go home to and talk about it with, somebody who is more in love with you than impressed by you.
It wasn't necessary to win for the story to be great, it was only necessary to sacrifice everything.
It occurs to me it is not so much the aim of the devil to lure me with evil as it is to preoccupy me with the meaningless.
To know there is a better story for your life and to choose something other is like choosing to die.
By accepting God's love for us, we fall in love with Him, and only then do we have the fuel we need to obey.
But true intimacy is just like that: it's the food you grow from well-tilled ground. And like most things good for us, it's an acquired taste.
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.
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.
Most great art is created when the artist feels they are channeling something rather than trying to communicate something.
Life isn't memorable enough to remember everything. It's not like there are explosions all the time, or dog smoking cigarettes.
When we talk about the decline of the American family, I think we have to go back to the Industrial Revolution.
God made a whole beautiful earth and decided to put you in it, to experience all of this beauty. You can't do that watching television all the time.
I took William Zinsser's advice that you write to yourself and you hope that there are people out there who are like you.
I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me
Because it is so scatterbrained and has absolutely no charts and graphs, I'm actually quite surprised the Bible sells.
I often learn more about myself from listening to the life story of a friend than I do reflecting on my own story.
We don't know how much we are capable of loving until the people we love are being taken away, until a beautiful story is ending.
A big part of me needed something outside myself to tell me who I was. The thing that had been designed to tell me who I was was gone.
Nothing is going to change in congo until you and i figure out what is wrong with the person inside the mirror
I need for there to be something bigger than me. I need someone to put awe inside me; I need to come second to someone who has everything figured out.
I began to wonder what life would be like if I dropped the act and began to trust that being myself would be enough to get the love I needed.
Having integrity is about being the same person on the inside that we are on the outside, and if we don't have integrity, life becomes exhausting.
We learn because in doing so we experience something like the pleasure God felt in the act of creation. We discover his handiworks with him.
When a person has no other persons he invents them because he was not designed to be alone, because it isn't good for a person to be alone.
Her relationships were more about shared memories and common values than about strategic partnerships to help each other succeed.
The reality is this, though: a healthy person coupled with an unhealthy person will still result in an unhealthy relationship.
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.
Most great art is freedom within form. Without form, we are amateurs, without freedom, we are robots.
I loved the fact that it wasn't my responsibility to change somebody, that it was God's, that my part was just to communicate love and approval.
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.
I only say this because a positive evolution happened in my life when I realized healthy relationships happen best between healthy people.
If honesty is the key to intimacy, it means we don't have to be perfect and, moreover, we don't have to pretend to be perfect.
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.
My faith teaches me that the path to join souls in love must of necessity involve a crucifixion, and I think there's a metaphor in there for marriage.
What do you want your marriage to look like? he repeated. I'd never thought about it. I'd spent countless
One of the things I associate with God is a sunrise. How many sunrises have you missed over the years, and God created that?
Lets choose to do something really difficult, something that saves lives, and let's do that thing with people we love.
I want to be with people who are humble and hungry, have healthy relationships, and are working to create new and better realities in the world.
Be encouraged. Your heart is writing a poem on the world and it's being turned into a thousand songs.
Everybody has to leave, everybody has to leave their home and come back so they can love it again for all new reasons.