642 Quotes by Donald Miller

Imagine how much a man’s life would change if he trusted that he was loved by God.

Perhaps that’s another reason true intimacy is so frightening. It’s the one thing we all want, and must give up control to get.

Simply put, we must show people the cost of not doing business with us.

It’s one thing to impress people, but it’s another to love them.

Imagine your customer is a hitchhiker. You pull over to give him a ride, and the one burning question on his mind is simply Where are you going? But as he approaches, you roll down the window and start talking about your mission statement, or how your grandfather built this car with his bare hands, or how your road-trip playlist is all 1980s alternative. This person doesn’t care.

Half the time I pick up a book, that’s what I’m trying to get.

Remarkably, the most common regret of the dying was this: they wish they’d had the courage to live a life true to themselves and not the life others expected of them.

After a tragedy, I think God gives us a period of numbing as a kind of grace. Perhaps he knows our small minds, given so easily to false hope, couldn’t handle the full brunt of reality.

Your problem is not that God is not fulfilling, your problem is that you are spoiled.