Keith Miller Quotes

The way to love someone is to lightly run your finger over that person's soul until you find a crack, and then gently pour your love into that crack.

I'll tell you what pressure is. Pressure is a Messerschmitt up your arse. Playing cricket is not.

The primary symptom of a controller is denial, that is I can't see its symptoms in myself.

I am deeply a part of the problem for which Christ died.

But keep characters in propinquity long enough and a story will always develop a plot.

I have learned to like myself for the first time and to have some serenity.

Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth.

I wrote a book called The Taste of New Wine because I couldn't find a book that talked about the reality of the situation and how we were dishonest and afraid.

I grew up and I became very successful at what I did as a young man. I became a work addict because this was the only way I could get any relief from this pain.

I am discovering that in trying to find God's will and the shape of the Christian life I have begun an adventure so great that its total completion will always be ahead.

A forest is mystery but the desert is truth. Life pared to the bone.

I remember when I was a little boy my father didn't love me; he couldn't. He loved my older brother but he couldn't love me somehow, at least not in a way I could understand it.

I learned that the purpose of the Twelve Steps is to do the will of God.

Intimacy, as I am using it, is sharing my reality with you.

All I have to tell you about is what I have heard and seen of Jesus, how He is helping me find freedom, to occasionally love other people, and even accept myself with all my mixed motives.

A lot of us have jobs where we need to give people structure but that is different from controlling.

We live in a constant fear that our shortcomings will be exposed to family, to friends and to the world

We can't be intimate because we can't share feelings that we don't have

No gentleman ever discusses any relationship with a lady.

I was taught that pain is bad.

Feelings are like a color chart that God has given us.

If God is in a life, it doesn't have to be big to be happy and to be important in His kingdom.

I am six feet tall. I am not supposed to be afraid.

A spiritual person is also in touch with his or her own reality, feelings and thoughts, and the reality of the people around him or her, not projecting on them.

Beneath all of these addictions is this disease, this control disease which is the mark of our society.

The problem is that this speeded-up life and stress in America causes us to cut off our feelings, so we are out of touch with our reality.

Prayer no longer seems like an activity to me; it has become the continuing language of the relationship I believe God designed to fulfill a human life.

The whole Bible is the story of men and women trying to get back to God, to overcome that sin with sacrifices, good works, sermons, prophesy, witnessing, giving all kinds of things. It never worked

We religious controllers control in the name of Jesus and it is really painful to people

My only hope to receive love is to let you see who I am, then I may believe you.

There never was a social change in America without angry people at the heart

I've seen batting all over the world. And in other countries too

I am too old to think.

What happens is that people who are very religious but who are not in touch with reality, cannot be spiritual.

There never was a social change in America without angry people at the heart.

In trying to commit my life to finding and participating in some of the purposes of Christ, as I can determine them, my energies and abilities are gradually being focused and are working together.

Beyond the stars you see are other stars, stars beyond stars, ' she told him, 'and all are dreams, like shoals of fish in the oceans of the night.

Stories are life, " protested Pico. "Without them, books would be only paper and ink, with them they breathe, the reader is drawn in, the stories become him.