642 Quotes by Donald Miller

We don't naturally want to take responsibility for our lives. We want to give the responsibility to someone else. We blame them when our lives aren't good.

She knows who she is. She just forgot for a little while.

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.

I know our culture will sometimes understand a love for Jesus as weakness. There is this lie floating around that says I am supposed to be able to do life alone, without any help, without stopping to worship something bigger than myself. But I actually believe there is something bigger than me, and I need for there to be something bigger than me. I need someone to put awe inside me; I need to come second to someone who has everything figured out.

I think writers would do better to consider that idea [to write to yourself], because you know yourself really well, and you never know your demographic fully. You only get into trouble if you try to please somebody you don't really understand.

Passion about nothing is like pouring gasoline in a car without wheels. It isn't going to lead anybody anywhere.

I'm not a pastor; I've never been on staff at a church.

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.

Other people keep our souls alive, just like food and water does with our body.