Quote

Christian spirituality was not a children's story. It wasn't cute or neat. It was mystical and odd and clean, and it was reaching into dirty. There was wonder in it and enchantment.

Donald Miller

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Donald Miller
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: August 12
Author
Screenwriter
Writer
Pearland
Texas
Clean
Enchantment
Wasn
Neat
Wonder
Mystical
Story
Odd
Christian
Cute
Stories
Reaching
Children
Dirty
Spirituality

More quotes by Donald Miller

Image
We don't think much about how our love stories will affect the world, but they do. Children learn what's worth living for and what's worth dying for by the stories they watch us live. I want to teach our children how to get scary close, and more, how to be brave. I want to teach them that love is worth what it costs.
Donald Miller
Image
It confuses me that Christian living is not simpler. The gospel, the very good news, is simple.
Donald Miller
Image
...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.
Donald Miller
Image
Moral #1: If you work hard, stay focused, and never give up, you will eventually get what you want in life. Moral #2: Sometimes the things we want most in life are the things that will kill us.
Donald Miller
Image
No love is conditional. If love is conditional, it’s just some sort of manipulation masquerading as love.
Donald Miller
Image
Everybody has to leave, everybody has to leave their home and come back so they can love it again for all new reasons.
Donald Miller
Image
Lets choose to do something really difficult, something that saves lives, and let's do that thing with people we love.
Donald Miller
Image
I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago, because a mind was made fo figure things out, not to read the same page recurrently.
Donald Miller
Image
Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself.
Donald Miller
Image
Don't let go of your strength or your beauty. It was given to you by God.
Donald Miller
Image
The mountains themselves call us into greater stories.
Donald Miller
Image
The ambitions we have will become the stories we live.
Donald Miller
Image
To change the world you'll need a pen.
Donald Miller
Image
All the trees are losing their leaves, and not one of them is worried.
Donald Miller
Image
The people I used to be surrounded by are getting along without me. Somehow, that really bugs me.
Donald Miller
Image
Good writers show rather than tell. Stories are told in action. Life stories are no different.
Donald Miller
Image
It was a haunting feeling, the sort of sensation you get when you wonder whether you are two people, the other of which does things you can't explain, bad and terrible things.
Donald Miller
Image
I'm the kind of person who wants to present my most honest, authentic self to the world, so I hide backstage and rehearse honest and authentic lines until the curtain opens.
Donald Miller
Image
It blew my mind that what I was thinking was actually applicable to people's lives, and it certainly revolutionized family.
Donald Miller
Image
Self-discipline will never make us feel righteous or clean accepting God's love will.
Donald Miller