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Donald Miller
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: August 12
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Pearland
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Truth grew in my mind like a fungus, and though I tried to sleep it out, there was no resisting the epiphanies.
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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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My Sunday school teachers had turned Bible narrative into children's fables. They talked about Noah and the ark because the story had animals in it. They failed to mention that this was when God massacred all of humanity.
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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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I am human because God made me. I experience suffering and temptation because mankind chose to follow Satan. God is reaching out to me to rescue me. I am learning to trust Him, learning to live by His precepts that I might be preserved.
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...a beggar's kingdom is better than a proud man's delusion.
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The most difficult lie I have ever contended with is this: life is a story about me.
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When a relationship is right, it is no more possible to wake up and want out of the marriage than it is to wake up and stop believing in God. What is, is what is.
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Half the time I don't know what I'm trying to say.
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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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The early bird catches the worm. But I have never been one for worms. I am not sure what the late bird catches, but I will feast with him today. Probably porridge.
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It was a haunting feeling, the sort of sensation you get when you wonder whether you are two people, the other of which does things you can't explain, bad and terrible things.
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I think, in the grand epic, Jesus is the hero of our stories. And our stories, as they were, are subplots in a grand epic and our job is not to be the hero of any story. Our job is to be a saint in a story that he is telling.
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The most attractive characteristic in a person is the story they are telling the world. We stop and stare at stories.
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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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Nothing is going to change in congo until you and i figure out what is wrong with the person inside the mirror
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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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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 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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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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