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

Donald Miller

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Donald Miller
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: August 12
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Pearland
Texas
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I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago, because a mind was made fo figure things out, not to read the same page recurrently.
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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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Passion about nothing is like pouring gasoline in a car without wheels. It isn't going to lead anybody anywhere.
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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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It is when people do not allow God to show up through them ... that the world collapses in on itself.
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You cannot be a Christian without being a mystic
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When we talk about the decline of the American family, I think we have to go back to the Industrial Revolution.
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You can't tell a good story without conflict - the story can't be beautiful or meaningful. We're taught to run from conflict, and it's robbing us of some really good stories.
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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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One of the things I associate with God is a sunrise. How many sunrises have you missed over the years, and God created that?
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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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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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Don't let go of your strength or your beauty. It was given to you by God.
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If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation.
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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.
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I think the best thing a person can do is to read through the Gospels in the Bible and really look at Jesus, because if a person does this, they will realize that the Jesus they learned about in Sunday school or the Jesus they hear jokes about or the skinny, Gandhi Jesus that exists in their imaginations isn't anything like the real Jesus at all.
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I heard once that real love doesn't ask what is in it for me it just gives unconditionally. It just tries to take the weight out of somebody else's pack, lessen his load, and if it gets reciprocated, that's great, but that isn't what you did it for.
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Most great art is freedom within form. Without form, we are amateurs, without freedom, we are robots.
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God doesn't give us crying, pooping children because he wants to advance our careers.
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