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Being a Christian is more like falling in love than understanding a series of ideas.

Donald Miller

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Donald Miller
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: August 12
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Pearland
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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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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.
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If I have a hope, it's that God sat over the dark nothing and wrote you and me, specifically, into the story and put us in with the sunset and the rainstorm as though to say, “Enjoy your place in my story. The beauty of it means you matter, and you can create within it even as I have created you.”
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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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To change the world you'll need a pen.
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If you aren't telling a good story, nobody thinks you died too soon they just think you died.
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It confuses me that Christian living is not simpler. The gospel, the very good news, is simple.
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The reason I like writing a memoir is because it isn't preachy.
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the times we worked harder to make the day stand out. our story demanded that we change and so we did.
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If what you are doing is important, you will encounter resistance. If what you are doing isn't important it will be easy.
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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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