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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
Author
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Pearland
Texas
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Even our beliefs have become trend statements. We don’t even believe things because we believe them anymore. We only believe things because they are cool things to believe.
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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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The times in my life when I have been most happy haven't been the times when I have had the most money or the most freedom or the most anything, but rather when I've been in love or in community or right with people.
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Humans are designed to seek comfort and order, and so if they have comfort and order, they tend to plant themselves, even if their comfort isn't all that comfortable. And even if they secretly want for something better.
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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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All the trees are losing their leaves, and not one of them is worried.
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She knows who she is. She just forgot for a little while.
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I think it's very hard for us, for Christians, to understand that it's okay to read a book, for instance, on how to manage your time. There's nothing wrong with that.
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If you aren't telling a good story, nobody thinks you died too soon they just think you died.
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Self-discipline will never make us feel righteous or clean accepting God's love will.
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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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Lets choose to do something really difficult, something that saves lives, and let's do that thing with people we love.
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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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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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I want to start replacing my “fix” response with an “enjoy” response and just let people be themselves.
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It wasn't necessary to win for the story to be great, it was only necessary to sacrifice everything.
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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 downside of being a writer is you get plenty of time to overthink your life.
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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 you buy the website, maybe you'll do something with it. But so far I haven't we'll see.
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