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As long as you're willing to turn the other cheek with the mean ones, vulnerability can get you a wealth of friends.
— Donald Miller
If I use the Bible to prove I am right, I have yet to be humbled by the beautiful truths of the Bible.
— Donald Miller
Anybody who wants to get their way says that Jesus supports their view. But that isn't Jesus' fault.
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Grace only sticks to our imperfections. Those who can't accept their imperfections can't accept grace either.
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You never question the truth of something until you have to explain it to a skeptic.
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It confuses me that Christian living is not simpler. The gospel, the very good news, is simple.
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To change the world you'll need a pen.
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What good does it do to tell somebody to live morally so they can die 50 years later and apparently go to Hell?
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When something happens to you, you have two choices in how to deal with it. You can either get bitter, or get better.
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It's funny what happens to you when part of your heart gets born inside somebody else.
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The mountains themselves call us into greater stories.
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Sunday morning church service is not an enormous priority; spending time with other believers is.
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The most often repeated commandment in the Bible is "Do not fear." It's in there over two hundred times.
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People are lonely. They want company and your book can provide them company and a little bit of hope. And there's nothing wrong with that.
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THINGS JESUS NEVER SAID: You should come with me to church.
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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.
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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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Everybody wants to be somebody fancy. Even if they're shy.
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Donald Coggan's wisdom: "When true preaching takes place, the main actor is not the preacher, nor the congregation, but the Holy Spirit."15
— Calvin Miller
The most important thing that happens within Christian spirituality is when a person falls in love with Jesus.
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I thought about how there are so many lies in fear. So much deception. What else keeps us from living a better story than fear?
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I only say this because a positive evolution happened in my life when I realized healthy relationships happen best between healthy people.
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God allows us to face the tension whether we like it or not.
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It blew my mind that what I was thinking was actually applicable to people's lives, and it certainly revolutionized family.
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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.
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Passion about nothing is like pouring gasoline in a car without wheels. It isn't going to lead anybody anywhere.
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The times we worked harder to make the day stand out.
our story demanded that we change and so we did. — Donald Miller
our story demanded that we change and so we did. — Donald Miller
When we look back on our lives, what we will remember are the crazy things we did, the times we worked harder to make a day stand out.
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Jason decided to stop yelling at his daughter and, instead, created a better story to invite her into.
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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.
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And when you find love, or when you are mature enough to understand it, the feeling you get is gratitude.
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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.
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Your life is a blank page. You write on it.
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A character is what he does.
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Life no longer felt meaningless. It felt stressful and terrifying, but it definitely didn't feel meaningless.
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The most difficult lie I have ever contended with is this: life is a story about me.
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I think the things we want most in life, the things we think will set us free, are not the thing we need.
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The whole idea of everybody wanting to be somebody new was an important insight in terms of liking God
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I lay there under the stars and thought of what a great responsibility it is to be human.
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Everybody has to leave, everybody has to leave their home and come back so they can love it again for all new reasons.
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Of all the principles I'd learn about story, the idea that a character is what he does remains the hardest to actually live.
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Telling the truth is the slow, mundane, difficult route to a meaningful life. Anything else is cheating.
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The problem is not out there; the problem is the needy beast of a thing that lives in my chest.
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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 stay away from churches in which I feel like I have to pretend I'm a better person than I am. That sort of thing moves my faith backwards.
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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.
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Nothing is going to change in congo until you and i figure out what is wrong with the person inside the mirror
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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.
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If you flatter somebody it will go to their heads. If you love them it will go to their hearts.
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You cannot be a Christian without being a mystic
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Just out of high school, you didn't realize you were creating drama for the sake of drama.
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It is no coincidence that Jesus talks endlessly about love. Free love. Unconditional love.
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Being a Christian is more like falling in love than understanding a series of ideas.
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half the feeling of home is usually a person.
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I have sometimes wondered if the greatest desire of man is to be known and loved anyway.
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Tell Me I can't and I will
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I had always suspected language was quite limited in its ability to communicate the intricate mysteries of truth.
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people can't live without a story, without a role to play.
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All this beauty exists so you and I can see His glory, His artwork. It's like an invitation to worship Him, to know Him.
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We don't think of our flaws as the glue that binds us to the people we love, but they are. Grace only sticks to your imperfections.
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place. I wondered whether a person could plan a story for his life and live it intentionally.
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Ultimately, I believe that God loves and wants a relationship with every human being, but with Laura I could feel God's urgency.
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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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Most great art is freedom within form. Without form, we are amateurs, without freedom, we are robots.
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She knows who she is. She just forgot for a little while.
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There is something inside me, some selfish beast of a subtle thing that doesn't like truth at all because it carries responsibility.
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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.
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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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Love can't be earned, it can only be given. And it can only be exchanged by people who are completely true with each other.
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Her relationships were more about shared memories and common values than about strategic partnerships to help each other succeed.
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If you have a beautiful story, it has to have conflict. If you don't have conflict, it can't be a good story.
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When you build a city near no mountains and no ocean, you get materialism and traditional religion. People have too much time and lack inspiration.
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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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WE'RE ALL AMATEURS WHEN IT COMES TO LOVE and relationships. I
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I believed if word got out about grace, the whole church was going to turn into a brothel.
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Those of us who are never satisfied with our accomplishments secretly believe nobody will love us unless we're perfect.
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It's possible to do both as a writer - to engage and have a family and all that good stuff - and I chose not to for the sake of the career.
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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.
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If you aren't telling a good story, nobody thinks you died too soon; they just think you died.
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It's one thing to impress people, but it's another to love them.
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WHENEVER SOMEBODY STARTS KEEPING SCORE IN a relationship the relationship begins to die.
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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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The reality is this, though: a healthy person coupled with an unhealthy person will still result in an unhealthy relationship.
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All relationships are teleological, are going somewhere.
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