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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.
Donald Miller
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Donald Miller
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: August 12
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The times in my life when I have been most happy haven't been the times when I have had the most money or the most freedom or the most anything, but rather when I've been in love or in community or right with people.
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The trouble with deep belief is that it costs something. And there is something inside me, some selfish beast of a subtle thing that doesn't like the truth at all because it carries responsibility, and if I actually believe these things I have to do something about them. It is so, so cumbersome to believe anything. And it isn't cool.
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I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me
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The more I try to impress people, the more I separate myself from them. Vulnerability attracts love.
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