Donald Miller Quotes

(The monks) approach was far less narcissistic and our tends to be. Their goal when reading Scripture was to see Christ in every verse, and not a mirror image of themselves.

Because it is so scatterbrained and has absolutely no charts and graphs, I'm actually quite surprised the Bible sells.

You don't realize your story is changing you until you look back.

I was starting to believe I was a character in a greater story, which is why the elements of story made sense in the first place.

...I wondered about the story we were writing and wanted even more to write a better story for myself, something that leaves a beautiful feeling even as the credits roll.

The actual language of life is not the charts and graphs and stuff we map out to feel smart. The hidden language we are speaking is really about negotiating the feeling God used to give us.

Jesus had no regard for the lifeboat politics you and I live within every day.

We were made to be distracted by life, by story.

The same principles that make up a good story also make up a good life.

I lay there under the stars and thought of what a great responsibility it is to be human.

The repentance we are called to is about choosing one audience over another.

About the time I told God that He didn't exist, I was desperate for an identity.

A big part of me needed something outside myself to tell me who I was. The thing that had been designed to tell me who I was was gone.

I'm perfectly willing to be perfectly human.

All relationships are teleological, are going somewhere.

For a long time, I thought I was good at relationships because I was charming.

You get a feeling when you look back on life that all God really wants from us is to live inside a body He made, and enjoy the story, and to bond with Him through the experience.

Just out of high school, you didn't realize you were creating drama for the sake of drama.

The reason stories have dramatic tension is because LIFE has dramatic tension.

The problem is this: those of us who are never satisfied with our accomplishments secretly believe nobody will love us unless we’re perfect.

I learned that true love turns the other cheek, does not take a wrong into account, loves all people regardless of their indifference or hostility.

What if part of God's message to the world was you, the true and real you?

Life no longer felt meaningless. It felt stressful and terrifying, but it definitely didn't feel meaningless.

Author Toni Morrison swats aside other possible sources of her success and says that the ONLY reason she is a great writer is because when she walked into a room as a child her father's face lit up.

Sunday morning church service is not an enormous priority spending time with other believers is.