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You never question the truth of something until you have to explain it to a skeptic.

Donald Miller

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Donald Miller
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: August 12
Author
Screenwriter
Writer
Pearland
Texas
Skeptic
Explain
Question
Truth
Something
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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.
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...she wanted God to make sense. He doesn't. He will make no more sense to me than I will make sense to an ant.
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It occurs to me it is not so much the aim of the devil to lure me with evil as it is to preoccupy me with the meaningless.
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...I should have people around bugging me and getting under my skin because without people I could not grow - I could not grow in God, and I could not grow as a human.
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There's a genius part of you that wants to create. That part of you wants to talk to God. Get out of the way.
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I love writing books - I really do. If I could just quit everything and work on a book every day, I would love that most.
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I think the best thing a person can do is to read through the Gospels in the Bible and really look at Jesus, because if a person does this, they will realize that the Jesus they learned about in Sunday school or the Jesus they hear jokes about or the skinny, Gandhi Jesus that exists in their imaginations isn't anything like the real Jesus at all.
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Everybody has to leave, everybody has to leave their home and come back so they can love it again for all new reasons.
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