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“I have sometimes wondered if the greatest desire of man is to be known and loved anyway.”
-- Donald Miller
#Men #Desire #Sometimes
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“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
#Giving #Inner Strength #Receiving
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“What I believe is not what I say I believe; what I believe is what I do.”
-- Donald Miller
#Believe #Action #I Believe
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“I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me”
-- Donald Miller
#Breakfast #Pancakes #Made
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“When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.”
-- Donald Miller
#Love #Life #Relationship
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“We don't need as much as we have. Hardly any of us need as much money as we have. It's true what they say about the best things in life being free.”
-- Donald Miller
#Being Free #Needs #Best Things In Life
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“Believing in God is as much like falling in love as it is making a decision. Love is both something that happens to you and something you decide upon.”
-- Donald Miller
#Falling In Love #Believe #Love Is
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“...to be in a relationship with God is to be loved purely and furiously. And a person who thinks himself unlovable cannot be in a relationship with God because he can't accept who God is; a Being that is love. We learn that we are lovable or unlovable from other people...That is why God tells us so many times to love each other.”
-- Donald Miller
#Thinking #People #Who God Is
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“...sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself...”
-- Donald Miller
#Watches #Sometimes
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“Every creative person, and I think probably every other person, faces resistance when they are trying to create something good...The harder the resistance, the more important the task must be.”
-- Donald Miller
#Thinking #Creative #Trying
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“I love writing books - I really do. If I could just quit everything and work on a book every day, I would love that most.”
-- Donald Miller
#Book #Writing #Quitting
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“The human body essentially recreates itself every six months. Nearly every cell of hair and skin and bone dies and another is directed to its former place. You are not who you were last November.”
-- Donald Miller
#Hair #Cells #Skins
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“Self-discipline will never make us feel righteous or clean; accepting God's love will.”
-- Donald Miller
#Self #Discipline #Accepting
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“If we knew how much God loved us and was for us, we’d talk to Him all day long.”
-- Donald Miller
#Long #God Love
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“The very scary thing about religion, to me, is that people actually believe God is who they think He is.”
-- Donald Miller
#Believe #Thinking #People
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“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
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“Everybody has to leave, everybody has to leave their home and come back so they can love it again for all new reasons.”
-- Donald Miller
#Travel #Home #Reason
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“How disappointing would it be get to heaven and find out God created life to be enjoyed while all we did was worry?”
-- Donald Miller
#Worry #Heaven #Disappointing
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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.”
-- Donald Miller
#Jesus #Real #School
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“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.”
-- Donald Miller
#Self Esteem #Believe #Talking
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“Fear is a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life.”
-- Donald Miller
#Fear #Fresh Start #Emotion
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“If we are not willing to wake up in the morning and die to ourselves, perhaps we should ask ourselves whether or not we are really following Jesus.”
-- Donald Miller
#Jesus #Morning #Wake Up
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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.”
-- Donald Miller
#Self #World #Lines
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“All relationships are living and alive and moving and becoming something.”
-- Donald Miller
#Moving #Alive #Becoming
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“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 #Safe #Stories
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“It is no coincidence that Jesus talks endlessly about love. Free love. Unconditional love.”
-- Donald Miller
#Jesus #Unconditional Love #Coincidence
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“When something happens to you, you have two choices in how to deal with it. You can either get bitter, or get better.”
-- Donald Miller
#Two #Choices #Get Better
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“...I want my spirituality to rid me of hate, not give me reason for it.”
-- Donald Miller
#Hate #Giving #Want
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“A story is based on what people think is important, so when we live a story, we are telling people around us what we think is important.”
-- Donald Miller
#Thinking #People #Important
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“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
