Quote

Passion about nothing is like pouring gasoline in a car without wheels. It isn't going to lead anybody anywhere.

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
Car
Lead
Anybody
Passion
Without
Gasoline
Nothing
Pouring
Going
Wheels
Like
Anywhere

More quotes by Donald Miller

Image
If I use the Bible to prove I am right, I have yet to be humbled by the beautiful truths of the Bible.
Donald Miller
Image
We shouldn’t be afraid to embrace whimsy, that nagging idea that life could be magical it could be special if we were only willing to take a few risks.
Donald Miller
Image
All my books have been titled based on a piece of the prose from inside the book.
Donald Miller
Image
It is worthy of note that the Chinese and Japanese characters for money and gold are the same.
Donald Miller
Image
Right, but you know, what would any of us lose by losing our possessions. Maybe we would gain something, like relationships, like the beauty of good friends, intimacy, you know what I mean, man? Like we wouldn't be losing anything if we lost our stuff, we'd be gaining everything.
Donald Miller
Image
The reason I like writing a memoir is because it isn't preachy.
Donald Miller
Image
God made a whole beautiful earth and decided to put you in it, to experience all of this beauty. You can't do that watching television all the time.
Donald Miller
Image
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.
Donald Miller
Image
Even our beliefs have become trend statements. We don’t even believe things because we believe them anymore. We only believe things because they are cool things to believe.
Donald Miller
Image
The greatest stories go to those who don’t give in to fear.
Donald Miller
Image
The sexual conquest is huge with men in terms of affirming themselves and their feelings of masculinity. That's a misguided kind of affirmation. That is not helpful, but that stuff happens.
Donald Miller
Image
There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing.
Donald Miller
Image
If you aren't telling a good story, nobody thinks you died too soon they just think you died.
Donald Miller
Image
Most great art is created when the artist feels they are channeling something rather than trying to communicate something.
Donald Miller
Image
To be in a relationship with God is to be loved purely and furiously. And a person who thinks himself unlovable cannot be in a relationship with God because he can't accept who God is a Being that is love. We learn that we are lovable or unlovable from other people. That is why God tells us so many times to love each other.
Donald Miller
Image
It is always the simple things that change our lives. And these things never happen when you are looking for them to happen. Life will reveal answers at the pace life wishes to do so. You feel like running, but life is on a stroll. This is how God does things.
Donald Miller
Image
To change the world you'll need a pen.
Donald Miller
Image
I am human because God made me. I experience suffering and temptation because mankind chose to follow Satan. God is reaching out to me to rescue me. I am learning to trust Him, learning to live by His precepts that I might be preserved.
Donald Miller
Image
I listened so hard because it felt like, while she was telling me stories, she was massaging my soul, letting me know that I was not alone, that I will never have to be alone, that there are friends and family and churches and coffee shops. I was not going to be cast into space.
Donald Miller
Image
Flattery has a short battery life, but reminding people they are amazing and precious and wanted and works of art can truly change their lives.
Donald Miller