Don Miller Quotes

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

Don Miller
We don't think much about how our love stories will affect the world, but they do. Children learn what's worth living for and what's worth dying for by the stories they watch us live. I want to teach our children how to get scary close, and more, how to be brave. I want to teach them that love is worth what it costs.

Don Miller
Grace only sticks to our imperfections. Those who can't accept their imperfections can't accept grace either.

Don Miller
Much of the time I've spent trying to impress people has been a waste. The reality is people are impressed with all kinds of things: intelligence, power, money, charm, talent, and so on. But the ones we tend to stay in love with are, in the long run, the ones who do a decent job loving us back.

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I think the best thing a person can do is to read through the Gospels in the Bible and really look at Jesus, because if a person does this, they will realize that the Jesus they learned about in Sunday school or the Jesus they hear jokes about or the skinny, Gandhi Jesus that exists in their imaginations isn't anything like the real Jesus at all.

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All relationships are living and alive and moving and becoming something.

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If you aren't telling a good story, nobody thinks you died too soon; they just think you died.

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How many people have damaged their own lives by mistaking enablement for grace?

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If honesty is the key to intimacy, it means we don't have to be perfect and we don't have to pretend to be perfect.

Don Miller
Sometimes the story we're telling the world isn't half as endearing as the one that lives inside us.

Don Miller
I had always suspected language was quite limited in its ability to communicate the intricate mysteries of truth.

Don Miller
True intimacy, the exchange of affection between two people who are not lying, is transforming.

Don Miller
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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Be encouraged. Your heart is writing a poem on the world and it's being turned into a thousand songs.

Don Miller
The very scary thing about religion, to me, is that people actually believe God is who they think He is.

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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.

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It's interesting that in the Bible, in the book of Ecclesiastes, the only practical advice given about living a meaningful life is to find a job you like, enjoy your marriage, and obey God. It's as though God is saying, Write a good story, take somebody with you, and let me help.

Don Miller
When we do what God wants us to do, we are blessed, we are spiritually healthy.

Don Miller
I once listened to an Indian on television say that God was in the wind and the water, and I wondered at how beautiful that was because it meant you could swim in Him or have Him brush your face in a breeze.

Don Miller
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.

Don Miller
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.

Don Miller
There are things you cannot understand, and you must learn to live with this. Not only must you learn to live with this, you must learn to enjoy this.

Don Miller
It does not escape me that I am blessed to be included in this tale of a billion human conflicts and singular resolution.

Don Miller
I no longer think being in love is the polar opposite of being alone, however. I say that because I used to want to be in love again as I assumed this was the opposite of loneliness. I think being in love is an opposite of loneliness, but not the opposite. There are other things I now crave when I am lonely, like community, like friendship, like family. I think our society puts too much pressure on romantic love, and that is why so many romances fail. Romance can't possibly carry all that we want it to.

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If I do not introduce people to Jesus, then I don't believe Jesus is an important person. It doesn't matter what I say.

Don Miller
I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago... So soon you will be in that part of the book where you are holding the bulk of the pages in your left hand, and only a thin wisp of the story in your right. We get one story, you and I, and one story alone....It might be time for you to go. It might be time to change, to shine out.

Don Miller
The multitude of formulas (for living the Christian life with success) proposed by Christian writers, preacher, conference speakers, and televangelists simply confuse me. They have different ideas about how it is done, offering promises of fulfillment and joy based on three easy steps, four points of action, or the five smooth stones that David threw.

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But the trouble with deep belief is that it costs something. And there is something inside me, some selfish beast of a subtle thing that doesn't like the truth at all because it carries responsiblity, and if I actually believe these things I have to do something about them.

Don Miller
When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.

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The real voice is stiller and smaller and seems to know, without confusion, the difference between right and wrong and the subtle delineation between the beautiful and profane. It's not an agitated voice, but ever patient as though it approves a million false starts. The voice I am talking about is a deep water of calming wisdom.

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