642 Quotes by Donald Miller

But the people who took the bus didn't experience the city as we experienced the city. The pain made the city more beautiful. The story made us different characters than we would have been if we had skipped the story and showed up at the ending an easier way.

Self-discipline will never make us feel righteous or clean; accepting God's love will.

I have friends who are writers, but we don't tend to talk about literature very much. It's just not part of my process; I tend to be pretty secretive about what I'm working on.

Nothing is going to change in congo until you and i figure out what is wrong with the person inside the mirror

There's a genius part of you that wants to create. That part of you wants to talk to God. Get out of the way.

It's something you can actually control. With writing, it feels like it's given to you, and when the good stuff hits, it feels like it's coming from some other planet.And you're just channeling it.

If honesty is the key to intimacy, it means we don't have to be perfect and we don't have to pretend to be perfect.

When something happens to you, you have two choices in how to deal with it. You can either get bitter, or get better.

I think writers can get a little melodramatic sometimes about their work, and it helps me not to do that, to just say, "Well, this is how I make a living, and I need to become a very good craftsman."