642 Quotes by Donald Miller

Humans are designed to seek comfort and order, and so if they have comfort and order, they tend to plant themselves, even if their comfort isn’t all that comfortable. And even if they secretly want for something better.

We don’t know how much we are capable of loving until the people we love are being taken away, until a beautiful story is ending.

I always thought the Bible was more of a salad thing, you know, but it isn’t. It’s a chocolate thing.

The ambitions we have will become the stories we live. If you want to know what a person’s story is about, just ask them what they want. If we don’t want anything, we are living boring stories, and if we want a Roomba vaccum cleaner, we are living stupid stories. If it won’t work in a story, it won’t work in life.

In my opinion the misappropriation of the longing for God has caused a lot of people a great deal of pain. In fact, I wondered if some of my early mistakes in relationships weren’t partly because I sought to find resolution for the longing through a woman, a burden no romantic partner should have to bear. How many relationships have been ruined by two people attempting to squeeze the Jesus out of each other?

God made a whole beautiful earth and decided to put you in it, to experience all of this beauty. You can’t do that watching television all the time.

It costs personal fear to be authentic but the reward is integrity, and by that I mean a soul fully integrated, no difference between his act and his actual person. Having integrity is about being the same person on the inside that we are on the outside, and if we don’t have integrity, life becomes exhausting.

If you work hard, stay focused, and never give up, you will eventually get what you want in life.

The point of a story is never about the ending, remember. It’s about your character getting.