J.R. Miller Quotes

I lay there under the stars and thought of what a great responsibility it is to be human.

I saw the errors I had made and assumed full responsibility for everything.

The repentance we are called to is about choosing one audience over another.

About the time I told God that He didn't exist, I was desperate for an identity.

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.

Those who are brave, are the greatest cowards of all. For they fear failure.

He knew, but it was not enough. The sorrow was so large it threatened to tear through my skin. When he died, all things swift and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.

Murphy's law inverted: What can go right, will go right. (Works if you're an optimist.)

Murphy's law inverted: What can go right, will go right.

Comedy was invented to make people forget, That the plays of our lives were originally written as tragedies.

People HAVE used me. But it don't matter I don't let it change me. – Mohammed Ali

Children are angels in exile, so close to God. They haven't had time to separate from Him.Ali

I'm perfectly willing to be perfectly human.

All relationships are teleological, are going somewhere.

For a long time, I thought I was good at relationships because I was charming.

You get a feeling when you look back on life that all God really wants from us is to live inside a body He made, and enjoy the story, and to bond with Him through the experience.

There is no greater gift of love than that of an animal choosing to share part of his soul’s journey here with you.

When it is time for you to say goodbye to a beloved animal friend, remember that while the physical interaction ceases, the soul connection you share is eternal and remains with you both forever.

We, animal and human, come to this time and space to have an experience embedded with our own divine purpose.

Animal companions come into your life for an infinite number of reasons, each one being in service to you, your current life experience, and moreover, your soul's growth and evolution.

Control is an advertising concept.

Above us, the constellations spun and the moon paced her weary course. We lay stricken and sleepless as the hours passed.

The best leaders want to leverage all the capabilities of the people in their organization.

Kei: Is there anything else you need while I'm here, Your Highness?Cabot: No, but you can leave the sarcasm in there.

Just out of high school, you didn't realize you were creating drama for the sake of drama.

A secret weighs on us, a terrible secret weighs with a terrible weight.

When you go into labor you see that you are not the captain of the ship. You are the ship. There is no captain. There are only the waves.

When you see recurring problems, the methods you’ve used successfully in the past have to be reevaluated.

To know a man properly, you must know the shape of his hurt - the specific wound around which his person has been formed like a scab.

Another drink, another sentence, and the writing continues on. . . .

I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman where the Self Help section was. She said if she told me it would defeat the purpose.

I may not be perfect, but God knows I'm trying . . . and God knowing should count for something.

The reason stories have dramatic tension is because LIFE has dramatic tension.

For some offenses, there is only retribution." Nora Hawks, "One Woman's Vengeance.

If you seek revenge, it means you're scared or you feel guilty for what happened in some way. It's okay to be angry with someone, but don't think about revenge. It's like a disease that eats you up.

Romantic Suspense, we love you so. You make us cringe, and give us hope. Sometimes we lust, sometimes we cry, But in the end, you make us sigh.

He read as much as his curiosity demanded - which is to say all

The writer as boxer says he develops by, "learning from everyone who'll spar with me.

Norman Mailer enhances the beauty of pugilism by elegantly exploring it.

When I think of how Jesus loved people, the word “cherish” comes to mind. When we cherish someone, we combine looking and compassion—we notice and care for that person. We don’t shut him or her out.

We begin to resemble what we focus on. If we devote our lives to our jobs, then we mentally take the office to our daughter’s lacrosse game.

Loving means losing control of our schedule, our money, and our time. When we love we cease to be the master and become a servant.

because we all know that the books we’ve loved best are seldom the ones we esteem the most highly

George Foreman looks as if he might have organically appeared out of the very ground around the church.

Just remember, the single most important thing in this world is love. You find it, you fight for it.

I manage a toast to the Christmas treeand one to the sweet absurdityin the miracle of the verb to be.Lucky you, lucky me.

I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.

The problem is this: those of us who are never satisfied with our accomplishments secretly believe nobody will love us unless we’re perfect.

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.

When a situation gets so bad that no solution seems possible there is left only murder and suicide, or both. These failing, one becomes a buffoon.