642 Quotes by Donald Miller

The heart responds to the conflict within a story.

If you aren't telling a good story, nobody thinks you died too soon; they just think you died.

I will love you like God, because of God, mighted by the power of God. I will stop expecting your love, demanding your love, trading for your love, gaming for your love. I will simply love. I am giving myself to you, and tomorrow I will do it again. I suppose the clock itself will wear thin its time before I am ended at this altar of dying and dying again. God risked Himself on me. I will risk myself on you. And together, we will learn to love, and perhaps then, and only then, understand this gravity that drew Him, unto us.

I think that every living person, every person who is awake to the functioning principles within his reality has a moment where he stops blaming the problems in the world on group thinking, on humanity and authority, and starts to face himself. I hate this more than anything. This is the hardest principle within christian spirituality for me to deal with. The problem is not out there, the problem is the needy beast of a thing living in my chest.

Every day you live is a page. Every year, a chapter. Your life, a book. What is it about?

Some people skip through life. Others are dragged through it. I sometimes wonder if we are moving through time, or whether time is moving through us. Light, unlike anything else in the universe is not effected by time. Light exists outside of time.. It is still a mystery to physicists.

Good writers show rather than tell. Stories are told in action. Life stories are no different.

THINGS JESUS NEVER SAID: "You should come with me to church.

When we think too much about the opinions of others, we are letting them edit a book God has written.