Don Miller Quotes

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

Don Miller
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
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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The people I used to be surrounded by are getting along without me. Somehow, that really bugs me.

Don Miller
The downside of being a writer is you get plenty of time to overthink your life.

Don Miller
We don't think of our flaws as the glue that binds us to the people we love, but they are. Grace only sticks to your imperfections.

Don Miller
It confuses me that Christian living is not simpler. The gospel, the very good news, is simple.

Don Miller
The times in my life when I have been most happy haven't been the times when I have had the most money or the most freedom or the most anything, but rather when I've been in love or in community or right with people.

Don Miller
I don't know why it is, exactly, but the people with the healthiest self-esteem, are also the greatest at intimacy. I'm not talking about arrogant people. I'm talking about people who know they are both good and bad yet believe at the deepest level they are really good for people.

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

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