Donald Miller Quotes - Page 7

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• I'm just trying to make the point that the story we're telling ourselves is often very different from the story we're telling the people around us.

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  People, Trying, Different

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• To change the world you'll need a pen.

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  Needs, World, Changing The World

  Twitter post from May 30, 2015

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• We shouldn’t be afraid to embrace whimsy, that nagging idea that life could be magical; it could be special if we were only willing to take a few risks.

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  Ideas, Risk, Special

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• The most attractive characteristic in a person is the story they are telling the world. We stop and stare at stories.

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  Stories, World, Attractive

  Twitter post from May 20, 2015

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• Meaning is something we experience more than we attain. It's like finding a nice, easy current in a river that carries you through life.

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  Nice, Rivers, Easy

  "Donald Miller, Christian Iconoclast". Interview with Joshua DuBois, www.thedailybeast.com. May 19, 2013.

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• I started Storyline after I'd accomplished all my goals and still wasn't happy. I'd become a New York Times bestselling author, which was my goal from high school, and yet I was less happy after accomplishing my goals than I was before.

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  New York, School, Goal

  "Donald Miller, Christian Iconoclast". Interview with Joshua DuBois, www.thedailybeast.com. May 19, 2013.

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• Good writers show rather than tell. Stories are told in action. Life stories are no different.

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  Different, Stories, Action

  Twitter post from Jun 19, 2015

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• Today I wonder why it is God refers to Himself as 'Father' at all. This, to me, in light of the earthly representation of the role, seems a marketing mistake.

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  Father, Mistake, Light

  Donald Miller (2007). “Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God”, p.10, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I think that every living person, every person who is awake to the functioning principles within his reality has a moment where he stops blaming the problems in the world on group thinking, on humanity and authority, and starts to face himself. I hate this more than anything. This is the hardest principle within christian spirituality for me to deal with. The problem is not out there, the problem is the needy beast of a thing living in my chest.

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  Christian, Hate, Reality

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• Passion about nothing is like pouring gasoline in a car without wheels. It isn't going to lead anybody anywhere.

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  Passion, Car, Pouring

  Donald Miller (2007). “Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God”, p.67, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I know our culture will sometimes understand a love for Jesus as weakness. There is this lie floating around that says I am supposed to be able to do life alone, without any help, without stopping to worship something bigger than myself. But I actually believe there is something bigger than me, and I need for there to be something bigger than me. I need someone to put awe inside me; I need to come second to someone who has everything figured out.

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  Jesus, Lying, Believe

  Donald Miller (2007). “Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God”, p.134, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• 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.

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  Responsibility, Giving, Want

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• 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.

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  Kindness, Passion, Character

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

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

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  Children, Careers, Giving

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

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• I listened so hard because it felt like, while she was telling me stories, she was massaging my soul, letting me know that I was not alone, that I will never have to be alone, that there are friends and family and churches and coffee shops. I was not going to be cast into space.

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  Coffee, Space, Community

  Donald Miller (2012). “Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality”, p.172, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The thing I loved about her was that I never felt like she was selling anything. She would talk to God as if she knew Him, as if she had talked to Him on the phone that day. She was never ashamed which is the thing with some Christians I had encountered.

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  Christian, Phones, Selling

  Donald Miller (2007). “Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God”, p.28, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Book of Ecclesiastes, God is saying... Write a good story, take somebody with you and let me help

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  Book, Writing, Stories

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• My Sunday school teachers had turned Bible narrative into children's fables. They talked about Noah and the ark because the story had animals in it. They failed to mention that this was when God massacred all of humanity.

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  Teacher, Children, School

  Donald Miller (2007). “Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God”, p.21, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• If I use the Bible to prove I am right, I have yet to be humbled by the beautiful truths of the Bible.

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  Beautiful, Use, Prove

  FaceBook post by Donald Miller from Sep 19, 2012

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• 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.

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  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

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• Being a Christian is more like falling in love than understanding a series of ideas.

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  Christian, Falling In Love, Ideas

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

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  Giving, Grace, Charity

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

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• The early bird catches the worm. But I have never been one for worms. I am not sure what the late bird catches, but I will feast with him today. Probably porridge.

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  Bird, Today, Porridge

  "Prayer and the Art of Volkswagen Maintenance". Book by Donald Miller, 2000.

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• I'm the kind of person who wants to present my most honest, authentic self to the world, so I hide backstage and rehearse honest and authentic lines until the curtain opens.

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  Self, World, Lines

  Donald Miller (2015). “Scary Close: Dropping the Act and Finding True Intimacy”, p.2, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• When I walked into the Christian section of a bookstore, the message was clear: Faith is something you do alone. Rick does not have much tolerance for people living alone. He's like Bill Clinton in that he feels everyone's pain. If Rick thinks somebody is lonely, he can't sleep at night. He wants us all to live with each other and play nice so he can get some rest. Tortured soul.

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  Christian, Lonely, Pain

  Donald Miller (2007). “Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God”, p.105, Thomas Nelson Inc

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