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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.

Donald Miller

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Donald Miller
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: August 12
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Christian spirituality was not a children's story. It wasn't cute or neat. It was mystical and odd and clean, and it was reaching into dirty. There was wonder in it and enchantment.
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Believing in God is as much like falling in love as it is making a decision. Love is both something that happens to you and something you decide upon.
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Meaning is something we experience more than we attain. It's like finding a nice, easy current in a river that carries you through life.
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...I should have people around bugging me and getting under my skin because without people I could not grow - I could not grow in God, and I could not grow as a human.
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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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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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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 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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We don't think of our flaws as the glue that binds us to the people we love, but they are. Grace only sticks to your imperfections.
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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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The most difficult lie I have ever contended with is this: life is a story about me.
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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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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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Suffering ceases to be suffering when you have a redemptive perspective.
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Most great art is created when the artist feels they are channeling something rather than trying to communicate something.
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Some people skip through life. Others are dragged through it. I sometimes wonder if we are moving through time, or whether time is moving through us. Light, unlike anything else in the universe is not effected by time. Light exists outside of time.. It is still a mystery to physicists.
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Maybe life isn't meaningless...Maybe just YOUR life is meaningless
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We don't naturally want to take responsibility for our lives. We want to give the responsibility to someone else. We blame them when our lives aren't good.
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But the people who took the bus didn't experience the city as we experienced the city. The pain made the city more beautiful. The story made us different characters than we would have been if we had skipped the story and showed up at the ending an easier way.
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Self-discipline will never make us feel righteous or clean accepting God's love will.
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