J.R. Miller Quotes

Prayer is a moment of incarnation - God with us. God involved in the details of my life.

I wouldn't serve a God who wouldn't speak to me.George Foreman

Prayer mirrors the gospel. In the gospel, the Father takes us as we are and gives us his gift of salvation. In prayer, the Father receives us as we are because of Jesus and gives us his gift of help.

Prayer is to the soul what oxygen is to the heart life

We have an allergic reaction to dependency, but this is the state of the heart most necessary for a praying life. A need heart is a praying heart. Dependency is the heartbeat of prayer.

We don't know how bad we are until we try to be good. Nothing exposes our selfishness and spiritual pwerlessness like prayer.

The kingdom comes when Jesus becomes king of your life. But it has to be your life.

In order to pray like a child, you might need to unlearn the nonpersonal, nonreal praying that you've been taught.

I liked this God very much because you hardly had to talk to it and it never talked back. Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

It feels good to know that if I died tomorrow I would have absolutely no regrets about things I wanted to do in life but did not try.

The separation of truth from reason is a dangerous game. I think ideas have to sink very deeply into a person's soul, into their being, before they can effect change.

He captures memories because if he forgets them, it's as though they didn't happen.

I pressed my dark issues to the back of my mind and smiled a slight untruthful happiness . . .

Maybe it's just easier to hold onto resentment and bitterness.But when you hold onto them, you're imprisoning yourself, not the other person. Not forgiving is pretty heavy baggage to carry around.

I readily admit that I'm not, and have never been, big on forgiving. That doesn't mean I will seek revenge - It just means I don't forgive.

Will you let me go for Christ's sake? Will you take that phony dream and burn it before something happens?

For who can be ashamed to lose to such beauty?

We don't get montages or grand finales. We just eat dinner and do the dishes, and absolutely no one's going to clap their hands about it.

When I was 30, I used to wonder when I was going to quit playing. Use disorder worry about it. Now, I know I'm never going to quit.

Our society seems to say that a real man needs and wants nobody.

After all, what is ''a man'' nowadays? Somebody who stands alone, independent of all ties.

His voice was soft but deep, and it sounded like history.

Guys are always confused by how soft and sentimental they are.

There’s not a chance we’ll reach our full potential until we stop blaming each other and start practicing personal accountability.

You can win in business by playing checkers until someone sneaks in one night after you’ve closed for the day and flips the board.

You cannot run a multimillion-dollar business like you would a lemonade stand.

Business is about profit, yes – and it is about more than profit: at its best, it is about expanding the possibilities of humanity.

People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.

Be true to yourself and others will be true to you, too.

In all of our battles, let's roar with the conquering powers of love and determination.

Every problem has a solution, even if we do not know the answer

The delicious, semiconscious, edge-of-wonderland kind of sleep, where I'm awake enough to control my dreams but asleep enough to forget that I'm doing it.

Jack may’ve been deceitful by blood and a liar by nature, but hot damn holy honeysuckle, he knew how to kiss.

Some of you might know me as Meg Lacey, but Lynda Miller is my real name. Of course, I am usually called Lynn and only Lynda by my father when I was in trouble.

Imogene always sitson the remote. It’s probably wedged between her butt cheeks.”“Should I go get a crowbar?

She was also a memory, the worst kind of memory--the kind that pulled you to your knees at just the sound of her name.

Anybody who wants to get their way says that Jesus supports their view. But that isn't Jesus' fault.

Let God grow in you. Hear his voice in your need. Let Jesus resurrect you right now, in this life, even before you’re done dying. Let him put your spirit back in your hungry body.

I mean Jesus never asked a man to do a damn thing that Jesus didn’t do.

In church, the rules of the lifeboat don't apply. Church is the refuge where the Kingdom of God is emulated, not mocked.

One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.

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.

Travel is wishing for one more bite of whatever that just was.

Wealth and reputation were the things our people had always killed for.

Old fighters keep making comebacks. We are more alive when boxing than at almost any other time.

My ancestors arrived on the Wayflower

The past isn’t always as beautiful as we paint it in our minds.

Maybe everything really does just have an expiration date—one that you can’t see until she tells you she’s leaving, and then she’s gone.

God allows us to face the tension whether we like it or not.

There is nothing left but the attempt and not trying is the same as failing.