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The reason I like writing a memoir is because it isn't preachy.
Donald Miller
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Donald Miller
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: August 12
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All this beauty exists so you and I can see His glory, His artwork. It's like an invitation to worship Him, to know Him.
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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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I took William Zinsser's advice that you write to yourself and you hope that there are people out there who are like you.
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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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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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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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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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When you fly across the country in an airplane the country seems vast but it isn't vast. It's all connected by roads one can ride a bike down. If you watch the news and there's a tragedy at a house in Kansas, that guy's driveway connects with yours, and you'd be surprised by how few roads it takes to get there.
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