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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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Earthly love… is temporal and slight so that is has to be given again and again in order for us to feel any sense of security but God’s love, God’s voice and presence, would instill our souls with such affirmation we would need nothing more and would cause us to love other people so much we would be willing to die for them.
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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.
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I took William Zinsser's advice that you write to yourself and you hope that there are people out there who are like you.
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When you fly across the country in an airplane the country seems vast but it isn't vast. It's all connected by roads one can ride a bike down. If you watch the news and there's a tragedy at a house in Kansas, that guy's driveway connects with yours, and you'd be surprised by how few roads it takes to get there.
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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.
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No love is conditional. If love is conditional, it’s just some sort of manipulation masquerading as love.
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I want to start replacing my “fix” response with an “enjoy” response and just let people be themselves.
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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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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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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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I tend to write first drafts that are incredibly cognitive, very rational, very boring. They come off as justification. Like, 'This is my idea and here's all the reasons that it's right.' It doesn't make for very compelling reading.
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We don't know how much we are capable of loving until the people we love are being taken away, until a beautiful story is ending.
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The people I used to be surrounded by are getting along without me. Somehow, that really bugs me.
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I posted chapters online and let people give feedback, and I was surprised at how much of that feedback I actually used for the book.I posted chapters online and let people give feedback, and I was surprised at how much of that feedback I actually used for the book. It was a different process for me, but I liked it.
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Fear isn’t only a guide to keep us safe it’s also a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life … the great stories go to those who don’t give in to fear.
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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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If I use the Bible to prove I am right, I have yet to be humbled by the beautiful truths of the Bible.
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