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The downside of being a writer is you get plenty of time to overthink your life.

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Donald Miller
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: August 12
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Pearland
Texas
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I used love like money, but love doesn't work like money. It is not a commodity. When we barter with it, we all lose. When the church does not love it's enemies, it fuels their rage. It makes them hate us more.
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I tend to write first drafts that are incredibly cognitive, very rational, very boring. They come off as justification. Like, 'This is my idea and here's all the reasons that it's right.' It doesn't make for very compelling reading.
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There's a genius part of you that wants to create. That part of you wants to talk to God. Get out of the way.
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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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We don't know how much we are capable of loving until the people we love are being taken away, until a beautiful story is ending.
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We don't think of our flaws as the glue that binds us to the people we love, but they are. Grace only sticks to your imperfections.
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Being a Christian is more like falling in love than understanding a series of ideas.
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I posted chapters online and let people give feedback, and I was surprised at how much of that feedback I actually used for the book.I posted chapters online and let people give feedback, and I was surprised at how much of that feedback I actually used for the book. It was a different process for me, but I liked it.
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All the trees are losing their leaves, and not one of them is worried.
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Earthly love… is temporal and slight so that is has to be given again and again in order for us to feel any sense of security but God’s love, God’s voice and presence, would instill our souls with such affirmation we would need nothing more and would cause us to love other people so much we would be willing to die for them.
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Let's show up to life. Let's prove how beautiful it can really be. Let's face the conflict, redeem it, conquer it, and allow it to mold our character. Let's participate in what God is doing in the world.
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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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You cannot be a Christian without being a mystic
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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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Lets choose to do something really difficult, something that saves lives, and let's do that thing with people we love.
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The more I try to impress people, the more I separate myself from them. Vulnerability attracts love.
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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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I know, from the three visits I made to him, the blended composite of love and fear that exists only in a boy's notion of his father.
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