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How many people have damaged their own lives by mistaking enablement for grace?
Donald Miller
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Donald Miller
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: August 12
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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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Today I wonder why it is God refers to Himself as 'Father' at all. This, to me, in light of the earthly representation of the role, seems a marketing mistake.
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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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Earthly love… is temporal and slight so that is has to be given again and again in order for us to feel any sense of security but God’s love, God’s voice and presence, would instill our souls with such affirmation we would need nothing more and would cause us to love other people so much we would be willing to die for them.
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I had always suspected language was quite limited in its ability to communicate the intricate mysteries of truth.
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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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Let's show up to life. Let's prove how beautiful it can really be. Let's face the conflict, redeem it, conquer it, and allow it to mold our character. Let's participate in what God is doing in the world.
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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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You can't tell a good story without conflict - the story can't be beautiful or meaningful. We're taught to run from conflict, and it's robbing us of some really good stories.
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When something happens to you, you have two choices in how to deal with it. You can either get bitter, or get better.
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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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Meaningful stories have lots and lots of conflict. If we avoid conflict, our stories won't be meaningful.
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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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The people I used to be surrounded by are getting along without me. Somehow, that really bugs me.
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I used love like money, but love doesn't work like money. It is not a commodity. When we barter with it, we all lose. When the church does not love it's enemies, it fuels their rage. It makes them hate us more.
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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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It wasn't necessary to win for the story to be great, it was only necessary to sacrifice everything.
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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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Christ, in short, asks us to give everything, all our false redemption in the lifeboat, all our false ideas about who God is, all our trust in something other than God to redeem us. In so doing, we die to our broken natures in exchange for His perfect nature, and find unification with Him that will allow God to see us as one.
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You never question the truth of something until you have to explain it to a skeptic.
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