642 Quotes by Donald Miller

Your Customers Are Not Curious About You, They Are Curious About How You Can Solve Their Problem.

I’d learned my default mode was to perform. Even in small groups I feel like I have to be “on.” But when I’m alone my energy comes back. When I’m alone I don’t have to perform for anybody.

The devil tries so hard to get Christians to be religious. If he can sink a man’s mind into habit, he will prevent his heart from engaging God.

I posted the first three chapters and I had enough people say that chapter two was dragging that I cut it out just before the book went to press. And I’m glad I did. The book is a lot better without it.

But love doesn’t control, and I suppose that’s why it’s the ultimate risk. In the end, we have to hope the person we’re giving our heart to won’t break it, and be willing to forgive them when they do, even as they will forgive us. Real love stories don’t have dictators, they have participants. Love is an ever-changing, complicated, choose-your-own adventure narrative that offers the world but guarantees nothing.

The entire world is falling apart because nobody will admit they are wrong.

Great writers know what to cut out. It’s the same in life. Clear ambitions. Clear relationships. This is the stuff of good story.

Customers are not interested in your story. They are, rather, interested in being invited into a story that has them surviving and winning in the end.

We learn that we are lovable or unlovable from other people... That is why God tells us so many times to love each other.