642 Quotes by Donald Miller

I started 'Storyline' after I'd accomplished all my goals and still wasn't happy. I'd become a 'New York Times' bestselling author, which was my goal from high school, and yet I was less happy after accomplishing my goals than I was before.

I could not have known then that everybody, every person, has to leave, has to change like seasons; they have to or they die. The seasons remind me that I must keep changing.

Meaning is something we experience more than we attain. It's like finding a nice, easy current in a river that carries you through life.

Our lives have a countdown clock that we can't see. Mine reminds me to only do work that matters.

I think understanding your life as a story is a really terrific way of kind of knowing where you are and knowing who you are.

Don't let go of your strength or your beauty. It was given to you by God.

Even our beliefs have become trend statements. We don’t even believe things because we believe them anymore. We only believe things because they are cool things to believe.

One of the things I love about our source text as Christians, the Bible, is that it teaches us not to avoid conflict. And it teaches us that before the fall of man, in Paradise, there was conflict. God wants conflict to be a part of your life.

I am human because God made me. I experience suffering and temptation because mankind chose to follow Satan. God is reaching out to me to rescue me. I am learning to trust Him, learning to live by His precepts that I might be preserved.