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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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Pearland
Texas
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To be in a relationship with God is to be loved purely and furiously. And a person who thinks himself unlovable cannot be in a relationship with God because he can't accept who God is a Being that is love. We learn that we are lovable or unlovable from other people. That is why God tells us so many times to love each other.
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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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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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One of the things I associate with God is a sunrise. How many sunrises have you missed over the years, and God created that?
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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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You can't tell a good story without conflict - the story can't be beautiful or meaningful. We're taught to run from conflict, and it's robbing us of some really good stories.
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I'm the kind of person who wants to present my most honest, authentic self to the world, so I hide backstage and rehearse honest and authentic lines until the curtain opens.
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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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It is worthy of note that the Chinese and Japanese characters for money and gold are the same.
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Christ, in short, asks us to give everything, all our false redemption in the lifeboat, all our false ideas about who God is, all our trust in something other than God to redeem us. In so doing, we die to our broken natures in exchange for His perfect nature, and find unification with Him that will allow God to see us as one.
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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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I have sometimes wondered if the greatest desire of man is to be known and loved anyway.
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I listened so hard because it felt like, while she was telling me stories, she was massaging my soul, letting me know that I was not alone, that I will never have to be alone, that there are friends and family and churches and coffee shops. I was not going to be cast into space.
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Nothing is going to change in congo until you and i figure out what is wrong with the person inside the mirror
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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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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 more I try to impress people, the more I separate myself from them. Vulnerability attracts love.
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There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very authentically looking for truth.
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The real voice is stiller and smaller and seems to know, without confusion, the difference between right and wrong and the subtle delineation between the beautiful and profane. It's not an agitated voice, but ever patient as though it approves a million false starts. The voice I am talking about is a deep water of calming wisdom.
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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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