Donald Miller Quotes
Everybody has to leave, everybody has to leave their home and come back so they can love it again for all new reasons.
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.
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.
I asked God to help me understand the story of the forest and what it means to be a tree in that story.
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.
I'm just trying to make the point that the story we're telling ourselves is often very different from the story we're telling the people around us.
If honesty is the key to intimacy, it means we don't have to be perfect and we don't have to pretend to be perfect.
I'm the kind of person who wants to present my most honest, authentic self to the world, so I hide backstage and rehearse honest and authentic lines until the curtain opens.
No love is conditional. If love is conditional, it’s just some sort of manipulation masquerading as love.
It wasn't necessary to win for the story to be great, it was only necessary to sacrifice everything.
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.
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.
Telling the truth is the slow, mundane, difficult route to a meaningful life. Anything else is cheating.
Most great art is created when the artist feels they are channeling something rather than trying to communicate something.
Meaningful stories have lots and lots of conflict. If we avoid conflict, our stories won't be meaningful.
The most important thing that happens within Christian spirituality is when a person falls in love with Jesus.
I always thought the Bible was more of a salad thing, you know, but it isn't. It's a chocolate thing.
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.
It is when people do not allow God to show up through them ... that the world collapses in on itself.
Sunday morning church service is not an enormous priority; spending time with other believers is.
I think it's very hard for us, for Christians, to understand that it's okay to read a book, for instance, on how to manage your time. There's nothing wrong with that.
It made me wonder if the reasons our lives seem so muddled is because we keep walking into scenes in which we, along with the people around us, have no clear idea what we want.
If you don't feel free and be yourself, you can't connect. Find people who accept your quirks. They'll heal your soul.
The sexual conquest is huge with men in terms of affirming themselves and their feelings of masculinity. That's a misguided kind of affirmation. That is not helpful, but that stuff happens.
Without a positive male role model in your life it is extremely difficult to become a man who benefits his family and benefits society.
When we talk about the decline of the American family, I think we have to go back to the Industrial Revolution.
I took William Zinsser's advice that you write to yourself and you hope that there are people out there who are like you.
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.
...I should have people around bugging me and getting under my skin because without people I could not grow - I could not grow in God, and I could not grow as a human.
...she wanted God to make sense. He doesn't. He will make no more sense to me than I will make sense to an ant.
The very scary thing about religion, to me, is that people actually believe God is who they think He is.
I think our society puts too much pressure on romantic love, and that is why so many romances fail. Romance can't possibly carry all that we want it to.
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.
And when you find love, or when you are mature enough to understand it, the feeling you get is gratitude.
Good writers show rather than tell. Stories are told in action. Life stories are no different.
