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There are things you cannot understand, and you must learn to live with this. Not only must you learn to live with this, you must learn to enjoy this.

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Donald Miller
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: August 12
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Humans are designed to seek comfort and order, and so if they have comfort and order, they tend to plant themselves, even if their comfort isn't all that comfortable. And even if they secretly want for something better.
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I think, in the grand epic, Jesus is the hero of our stories. And our stories, as they were, are subplots in a grand epic and our job is not to be the hero of any story. Our job is to be a saint in a story that he is telling.
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I often learn more about myself from listening to the life story of a friend than I do reflecting on my own story.
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We don't think of our flaws as the glue that binds us to the people we love, but they are. Grace only sticks to your imperfections.
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Job found contentment and even joy, outside the context of comfort, health or stability. He understood the story was not about him, and he cared more about the story then he did about himself.
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What I believe is not what I say I believe what I believe is what I do.
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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 think we can provide better stories through providing mentors, and certainly part of my story is providing mentors to kids growing up without dads. I think positive male role models go a long way in terms of rescuing kids from a life of trouble.I think positive male role models go a long way in terms of rescuing kids from a life of trouble.
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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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When we talk about the decline of the American family, I think we have to go back to the Industrial Revolution.
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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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If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation.
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The most attractive characteristic in a person is the story they are telling the world. We stop and stare at stories.
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It is worthy of note that the Chinese and Japanese characters for money and gold are the same.
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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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My Sunday school teachers had turned Bible narrative into children's fables. They talked about Noah and the ark because the story had animals in it. They failed to mention that this was when God massacred all of humanity.
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When I started studying the issue and issues related to fatherlessness, I realized I had all of them. Fear of intimacy, fear of commitment, poor work ethic, just stuff that you don't have when you don't have a man in your life to look you in the eye and say, You're good, or Good job.
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Good writers show rather than tell. Stories are told in action. Life stories are no different.
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The ambitions we have will become the stories we live.
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The most difficult lie I have ever contended with is this: life is a story about me.
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