Donald Miller Quotes About Character

Quotes about: Character

• If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation.

  Donald Miller

  Character, Stories, Transformation

  Donald Miller (2009). “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life”, p.68, Thomas Nelson Inc

• I've wondered, though, if one of the reasons we fail to acknowledge the brilliance of life is because we don't want the responsibility inherent in the acknowledgment. We don't want to be characters in a story because characters have to move and breathe and face conflict with courage. And if life isn't remarkable, then we don't have to do any of that; we can be unwilling victims instead of grateful participants.

  Donald Miller

  Grateful, Moving, Responsibility

  Donald Miller (2009). “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life”, p.59, Thomas Nelson Inc

• Let's show up to life. Let's prove how beautiful it can really be. Let's face the conflict, redeem it, conquer it, and allow it to mold our
  character. Let's participate in what God is doing in the world.

  Donald Miller

  Beautiful, Character, World

• If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation. If I got any comfort as I set out on my first story, it was that in nearly every story, the protagonist is transformed. He's a jerk at the beginning and nice at the end, or a coward at the beginning and brave at the end. If the character doesn't change, the story hasn't happened yet. And if story is derived from real life, if story is just condensed version of life then life itself may be designed to change us so that we evolve from one kind of person to another.

  Donald Miller

  Real, Nice, Character

  Donald Miller (2009). “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life”, p.68, Thomas Nelson Inc

• A story is a character who wants something and overcomes conflict to get it.

  Donald Miller

  Character, Want Something, Overcoming

  Donald Miller (2009). “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life”, p.48, Thomas Nelson

• Robert McKee says humans naturally seek comfort and stability. Without an inciting incident that disrupts their comfort, they won’t enter into a story. They have to get fired from their job or be forced to sign up for a marathon. A ring has to be purchased. A home has to be sold. The character has to jump into the story, into the discomfort and the fear, otherwise the story will never happen.

  Donald Miller

  Jobs, Home, Character

• But the people who took the bus didn't experience the city as we experienced the city. The pain made the city more beautiful. The story made us different characters than we would have been if we had skipped the story and showed up at the ending an easier way.

  Donald Miller

  Beautiful, Pain, Character

• If we hear, in our inner ear, a voice saying we are failures, we are losers, we will never amount to anything, this is the voice of Satan trying to convince the bride that the groom does not love her. This is not the voice of God. God woos us with kindness. He changes out of character with the passion of his love.

  Donald Miller

  Kindness, Passion, Character

  Donald Miller (2007). “Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God”, p.55, Thomas Nelson Inc

• The inciting incident is how you get (characters) to do something. It's the doorway through which they can't return, you know. The story takes care of the rest.

  Donald Miller

  Character, Stories, Care

  Donald Miller (2009). “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life”, p.104, Thomas Nelson Inc

• It is worthy of note that the Chinese and Japanese characters for money and gold are the same.

  Donald Miller

  Character, Chinese, Gold

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