Donald Miller Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• And so I have come to understand that strength, inner strength, comes from receiving love as much as it comes from giving it.

  Donald Miller

  Receiving Love, Giving, Inner Strength

  Donald Miller (2007). “Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God”, p.131, Thomas Nelson Inc

• I think this is when most people give up on their stories. They come out of college wanting to change the world, wanting to get married, wanting to have kids and change the way people buy office supplies. But they get into the middle and discover it was harder than they thought. They can't see the distant shore anymore, and they wonder if their paddling is moving them forward. None of the trees behind them are getting smaller and none of the trees ahead are getting bigger. They take it out on their spouses, and they go looking for an easier story.

  Donald Miller

  Giving Up, Moving, Kids

• ...I want my spirituality to rid me of hate, not give me reason for it.

  Donald Miller

  Hate, Giving, Want

  Donald Miller (2012). “Blue Like Jazz: Movie Edition: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality”, p.132, Thomas Nelson Inc

• Fear isn’t only a guide to keep us safe; it’s also a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life … the great stories go to those who don’t give in to fear.

  Donald Miller

  Giving, Stories, Safe

  Donald Miller (2009). “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life”, p.108, Thomas Nelson Inc

• Moral #1: "If you work hard, stay focused, and never give up, you will eventually get what you want in life." Moral #2: Sometimes the things we want most in life are the things that will kill us.

  Donald Miller

  Giving Up, Hard Work, Want

• I will love you like God, because of God, mighted by the power of God. I will stop expecting your love, demanding your love, trading for your love, gaming for your love. I will simply love. I am giving myself to you, and tomorrow I will do it again. I suppose the clock itself will wear thin its time before I am ended at this altar of dying and dying again. God risked Himself on me. I will risk myself on you. And together, we will learn to love, and perhaps then, and only then, understand this gravity that drew Him, unto us.

  Donald Miller

  Love You, Giving, Risk

  Donald Miller (2012). “Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality”, p.150, Thomas Nelson Inc

• More than my questions about the efficacy of social actions were my questions about my own motives. Do i want social justice for the oppressed or do i jusy want to be known as a socially active person? I spend 95 percent of my time thinking about myself anyway. I dont have to watch the evening news to see the world is bad, i only have to look at myself. I am not brow beating here, i am only saying that true charge , true living giving, God honoring change would have to start with the individual. I was the very problem i had been protesting. I wanted to make a sign that read “I am the problem

  Donald Miller

  Thinking, Here I Am, Giving

• Christ, in short, asks us to give everything, all our false redemption in the lifeboat, all our false ideas about who God is, all our trust in something other than God to redeem us. In so doing, we die to our broken natures in exchange for His perfect nature, and find unification with Him that will allow God to see us as one.

  Donald Miller

  Ideas, Broken, Giving

  Donald Miller (2004). “Searching for God Knows What”, p.226, Thomas Nelson Inc

• I love to give to charity, but I don't want to be charity. This is why I have so much trouble with grace.

  Donald Miller

  Giving, Grace, Charity

  Donald Miller (2007). “Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God”, p.54, Thomas Nelson Inc

• The greatest stories go to those who don’t give in to fear.

  Donald Miller

  Giving, Stories, Manipulative

  Donald Miller (2009). “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life”, p.108, Thomas Nelson Inc

• We don't naturally want to take responsibility for our lives. We want to give the responsibility to someone else. We blame them when our lives aren't good.

  Donald Miller

  Responsibility, Giving, Want

• God doesn't give us crying, pooping children because he wants to advance our careers.

  Donald Miller

  Children, Careers, Giving

  Donald Miller (2015). “Scary Close: Dropping the Act and Finding True Intimacy”, p.90, Thomas Nelson Inc

• I heard once that real love doesn't ask what is in it for me; it just gives unconditionally. It just tries to take the weight out of somebody else's pack, lessen his load, and if it gets reciprocated, that's great, but that isn't what you did it for.

  Donald Miller

  Real, Giving, Trying

  Donald Miller (2007). “Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God”, p.312, Thomas Nelson Inc

• I posted chapters online and let people give feedback, and I was surprised at how much of that feedback I actually used for the book.I posted chapters online and let people give feedback, and I was surprised at how much of that feedback I actually used for the book. It was a different process for me, but I liked it.

  Donald Miller

  Book, People, Giving

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