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The mountains themselves call us into greater stories.

Donald Miller

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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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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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People want to join a great story. If you want to lead, tell one with your life.
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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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There are two types of men in this world--one is looking for a woman to make his life complete and the other is looking for a woman to join his complete life.
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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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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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