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If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation.

Donald Miller

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Donald Miller
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: August 12
Author
Screenwriter
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Pearland
Texas
Stories
Character
Life
Transformation
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I love to give to charity, but I don't want to be charity. This is why I have so much trouble with grace.
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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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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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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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I love writing books - I really do. If I could just quit everything and work on a book every day, I would love that most.
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The thing I loved about her was that I never felt like she was selling anything. She would talk to God as if she knew Him, as if she had talked to Him on the phone that day. She was never ashamed which is the thing with some Christians I had encountered.
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It confuses me that Christian living is not simpler. The gospel, the very good news, is simple.
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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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Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself.
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Everybody has to leave, everybody has to leave their home and come back so they can love it again for all new reasons.
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All my books have been titled based on a piece of the prose from inside the book.
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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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There's a genius part of you that wants to create. That part of you wants to talk to God. Get out of the way.
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The ambitions we have will become the stories we live.
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I listened so hard because it felt like, while she was telling me stories, she was massaging my soul, letting me know that I was not alone, that I will never have to be alone, that there are friends and family and churches and coffee shops. I was not going to be cast into space.
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