642 Quotes by Donald Miller

I kept asking Him to say it again, but He wouldn’t. I guess it’s because I heard Him the first time, you know.

I began to wonder what life would be like if I dropped the act and began to trust that being myself would be enough to get the love I needed.

When a person has no other persons he invents them because he was not designed to be alone, because it isn’t good for a person to be alone.

But true intimacy is just like that: it’s the food you grow from well-tilled ground. And like most things good for us, it’s an acquired taste.

We have to be taught to be good. It doesn’t come natural.

Every human being wakes up each morning and sees the world through the lens of a protagonist. The world revolves around us, regardless of how altruistic, generous, and selfless a person we may be.

Sooner or later you just figure out there are some guys who don’t believe in God and they can prove He doesn’t exist, and some other guys who do believe in God and they can prove He does exist, and the argument stopped being about God a long time ago and now it’s about who is smarter, and honestly I don’t care. I don’t believe I will ever walk away from God for intellectual reasons. Who knows anything anyway?

I only say this because a positive evolution happened in my life when I realized healthy relationships happen best between healthy people.

I’m a writer because, at an early age, I became convinced it was the one thing I could do to earn people’s respect. It’s true in the process I learned to love words and ideas and these days I actually like to get lost in the writing process. But the early fuel, the early motivation, was all about becoming a person worth loving.