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Half the time I don't know what I'm trying to say.

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Donald Miller
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: August 12
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Pearland
Texas
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Every creative person, and I think probably every other person, faces resistance when they are trying to create something good...The harder the resistance, the more important the task must be.
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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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If I use the Bible to prove I am right, I have yet to be humbled by the beautiful truths of the Bible.
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If I have a hope, it's that God sat over the dark nothing and wrote you and me, specifically, into the story and put us in with the sunset and the rainstorm as though to say, “Enjoy your place in my story. The beauty of it means you matter, and you can create within it even as I have created you.”
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There are two types of men in this world--one is looking for a woman to make his life complete and the other is looking for a woman to join his complete life.
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Without a positive male role model in your life it is extremely difficult to become a man who benefits his family and benefits society.
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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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I am something of a recluse by nature. I am that cordless screwdriver that has to charge for twenty hours to earn ten minutes use. I need that much downtime.
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If you buy the website, maybe you'll do something with it. But so far I haven't we'll see.
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Humans are designed to seek comfort and order, and so if they have comfort and order, they tend to plant themselves, even if their comfort isn't all that comfortable. And even if they secretly want for something better.
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All the trees are losing their leaves, and not one of them is worried.
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The ambitions we have will become the stories we live.
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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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Meaning is something we experience more than we attain. It's like finding a nice, easy current in a river that carries you through life.
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Being a Christian is more like falling in love than understanding a series of ideas.
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Right, but you know, what would any of us lose by losing our possessions. Maybe we would gain something, like relationships, like the beauty of good friends, intimacy, you know what I mean, man? Like we wouldn't be losing anything if we lost our stuff, we'd be gaining everything.
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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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I am early in my story, but I believe I will stretch out into eternity, and in heaven I will reflect upon these early days, these days when it seemed God was down a dirt road, walking toward me. Years ago He was a swinging speck in the distance now He is close enough I can hear His singing. Soon I will see the lines on His face.
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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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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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