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The mountains themselves call us into greater stories.

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Donald Miller
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: August 12
Author
Screenwriter
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Pearland
Texas
Mountains
Mountain
Call
Greater
Stories

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God made a whole beautiful earth and decided to put you in it, to experience all of this beauty. You can't do that watching television all the time.
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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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The downside of being a writer is you get plenty of time to overthink your life.
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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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The truth is, if what we choose to do with our lives won't make a story meaningful, it won't make a life meaningful either.
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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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Of his new book, Don says: “It might be the greatest book ever written. I don’t think anybody is going to read a book again after they read my new one. I think God is proud of me. I am going to make a killing off this thing and I’m going to use the money to go to space.
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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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