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You cannot be a Christian without being a mystic
Donald Miller
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Donald Miller
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: August 12
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The economy is turning around, so that's going to help a little bit.
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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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When something happens to you, you have two choices in how to deal with it. You can either get bitter, or get better.
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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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Nobody will listen to you unless they sense that you like them.
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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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God doesn't give us crying, pooping children because he wants to advance our careers.
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Every day you live is a page. Every year, a chapter. Your life, a book. What is it about?
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I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago, because a mind was made fo figure things out, not to read the same page recurrently.
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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.
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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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The downside of being a writer is you get plenty of time to overthink your life.
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And so I have come to understand that strength, inner strength, comes from receiving love as much as it comes from giving it.
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Without the Christian explanation of original sin, the seemingly silly story of Adam and Eve and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, there was no explanation of conflict. At all.
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To change the world you'll need a pen.
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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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Today I wonder why it is God refers to Himself as 'Father' at all. This, to me, in light of the earthly representation of the role, seems a marketing mistake.
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The thing I loved about her was that I never felt like she was selling anything. She would talk to God as if she knew Him, as if she had talked to Him on the phone that day. She was never ashamed which is the thing with some Christians I had encountered.
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I don't read a lot of inspirational books for life. But for writing, I think the two best books are The War of Art and William Zinsser's On Writing Well. I read a lot of classics.
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...she wanted God to make sense. He doesn't. He will make no more sense to me than I will make sense to an ant.
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