Donald Miller Quotes About Conflict

Quotes about: Conflict

• You can't tell a good story without conflict - the story can't be beautiful or meaningful. We're taught to run from conflict, and it's robbing us of some really good stories.

  Donald Miller

  Beautiful, Meaningful, Running

• Meaningful stories have lots and lots of conflict. If we avoid conflict, our stories won't be meaningful.

  Donald Miller

  Meaningful, Stories, Conflict

  Twitter post from Aug 10, 2015

• 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

• 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

• The heart responds to the conflict within a story.

  Donald Miller

  Heart, Stories, Conflict

• Without the Christian explanation of original sin, the seemingly silly story of Adam and Eve and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, there was no explanation of conflict. At all.

  Donald Miller

  Christian, Silly, Evil

  Donald Miller (2012). “Blue Like Jazz: Movie Edition: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality”, p.32, Thomas Nelson Inc

• Good stories must travel through conflict. And in epic stories, the conflict must become unbearable.

  Donald Miller

  Epic, Stories, Unbearable

• I kept imagining these people, just living their daily lives, and then having them suddenly ended in unjust tragedy. When we watch the news, we grieve all of this, but when we go to the movies, we want more of it. Somehow we realize that great stories are told in conflict, but we are unwilling to embrace the potential greatness of the story we are actually in. We think God is unjust, rather than a master storyteller.

  Donald Miller

  Greatness, Thinking, Grieving

  Donald Miller (2009). “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life”, p.31, Thomas Nelson Inc

• If you have a beautiful story, it has to have conflict. If you don't have conflict, it can't be a good story.

  Donald Miller

  Beautiful, Stories, Conflict

  "Q&A with Author Donald Miller". Relevant Interview, relevantmagazine.com. November 20, 2009.

• One of the things I love about our source text as Christians, the Bible is that it teaches us not to avoid conflict. And it teaches us that before the fall of man, in Paradise, there was conflict. God wants conflict to be a part of your life.

  Donald Miller

  Christian, Fall, Men

  "Q&A with Author Donald Miller". RELEVANT Magazine Interview, relevantmagazine.com. November 20, 2009.

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