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Every day you live is a page. Every year, a chapter. Your life, a book. What is it about?

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Donald Miller
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: August 12
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Pearland
Texas
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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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All my books have been titled based on a piece of the prose from inside the book.
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All the trees are losing their leaves, and not one of them is worried.
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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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I have sometimes wondered if the greatest desire of man is to be known and loved anyway.
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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 blew my mind that what I was thinking was actually applicable to people's lives, and it certainly revolutionized family.
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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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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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If what you are doing is important, you will encounter resistance. If what you are doing isn't important it will be easy.
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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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Suffering ceases to be suffering when you have a redemptive perspective.
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It's possible to do both as a writer - to engage and have a family and all that good stuff - and I chose not to for the sake of the career.
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