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Half the time I don't know what I'm trying to say.
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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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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The sexual conquest is huge with men in terms of affirming themselves and their feelings of masculinity. That's a misguided kind of affirmation. That is not helpful, but that stuff happens.
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I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me
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