642 Quotes by Donald Miller

I am early in my story, but I believe I will stretch out into eternity, and in heaven I will reflect upon these early days, these days when it seemed God was down a dirt road, walking toward me. Years ago He was a swinging speck in the distance; now He is close enough I can hear His singing. Soon I will see the lines on His face.

It is when people do not allow God to show up through them ... that the world collapses in on itself.

Dying for something is easy because it is associated with glory. Living for something is the hard thing. Living for something extends beyond fashion, glory, or recognition. We live for what we believe.

A good story makes you thankful to be alive because it reminds you that while sometimes painful, life is indeed beautiful and even magical.

We believe we will be made whole by our accomplishments, our possessions, or our social status. It’s written in the fabric of our DNA that life used to be beautiful and now it isn’t, and if only this and only that, it would be beautiful again.

I’m just trying to make the point that the story we’re telling ourselves is often very different from the story we’re telling the people around us.

Moral #1: "If you work hard, stay focused, and never give up, you will eventually get what you want in life." Moral #2: "Sometimes the things we want most in life are the things that will kill us."

I can’t do it. It would be like, say, trying to fall in love with somebody, or trying to convince yourself that your favorite food is pancakes. You don’t decide those things, they just happen to you. If God is real, He needs to happen to me.

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