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If you don't feel free and be yourself, you can't connect. Find people who accept your quirks. They'll heal your soul.

Donald Miller

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Donald Miller
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: August 12
Author
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Writer
Pearland
Texas
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Quirks
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The greatest stories go to those who don’t give in to fear.
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...she wanted God to make sense. He doesn't. He will make no more sense to me than I will make sense to an ant.
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I have sometimes wondered if the greatest desire of man is to be known and loved anyway.
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It is worthy of note that the Chinese and Japanese characters for money and gold are the same.
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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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I'm the kind of person who wants to present my most honest, authentic self to the world, so I hide backstage and rehearse honest and authentic lines until the curtain opens.
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Good writers show rather than tell. Stories are told in action. Life stories are no different.
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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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...I should have people around bugging me and getting under my skin because without people I could not grow - I could not grow in God, and I could not grow as a human.
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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 can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me
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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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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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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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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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All my books have been titled based on a piece of the prose from inside the book.
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