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Flattery has a short battery life, but reminding people they are amazing and precious and wanted and works of art can truly change their lives.

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Donald Miller
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: August 12
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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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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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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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I tend to write first drafts that are incredibly cognitive, very rational, very boring. They come off as justification. Like, 'This is my idea and here's all the reasons that it's right.' It doesn't make for very compelling reading.
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The most important thing that happens within Christian spirituality is when a person falls in love with Jesus.
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God doesn't give us crying, pooping children because he wants to advance our careers.
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Somehow I had come to believe that because a person is in need, they are candidates for sympathy, not just charity. It was not that I wanted to buy her groceries, the government was already doing that. I wanted to buy her dignity. And yet, by judging her, I was the one taking her dignity away.
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It is when people do not allow God to show up through them ... that the world collapses in on itself.
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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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The trouble with deep belief is that it costs something. And there is something inside me, some selfish beast of a subtle thing that doesn't like the truth at all because it carries responsibility, and if I actually believe these things I have to do something about them. It is so, so cumbersome to believe anything. And it isn't cool.
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I think the best thing a person can do is to read through the Gospels in the Bible and really look at Jesus, because if a person does this, they will realize that the Jesus they learned about in Sunday school or the Jesus they hear jokes about or the skinny, Gandhi Jesus that exists in their imaginations isn't anything like the real Jesus at all.
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Job found contentment and even joy, outside the context of comfort, health or stability. He understood the story was not about him, and he cared more about the story then he did about himself.
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People are lonely. They want company and your book can provide them company and a little bit of hope. And there's nothing wrong with that.
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Self-discipline will never make us feel righteous or clean accepting God's love will.
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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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People want to join a great story. If you want to lead, tell one with your life.
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Don't let go of your strength or your beauty. It was given to you by God.
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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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Suffering ceases to be suffering when you have a redemptive perspective.
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I think we can provide better stories through providing mentors, and certainly part of my story is providing mentors to kids growing up without dads. I think positive male role models go a long way in terms of rescuing kids from a life of trouble.I think positive male role models go a long way in terms of rescuing kids from a life of trouble.
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