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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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The most difficult lie I have ever contended with is this: life is a story about me.
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We don't naturally want to take responsibility for our lives. We want to give the responsibility to someone else. We blame them when our lives aren't good.
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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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Maybe life isn't meaningless...Maybe just YOUR life is meaningless
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And so I have come to understand that strength, inner strength, comes from receiving love as much as it comes from giving it.
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How many people have damaged their own lives by mistaking enablement for grace?
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I often learn more about myself from listening to the life story of a friend than I do reflecting on my own story.
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To be in a relationship with God is to be loved purely and furiously. And a person who thinks himself unlovable cannot be in a relationship with God because he can't accept who God is a Being that is love. We learn that we are lovable or unlovable from other people. That is why God tells us so many times to love each other.
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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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People are lonely. They want company and your book can provide them company and a little bit of hope. And there's nothing wrong with that.
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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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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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I listened so hard because it felt like, while she was telling me stories, she was massaging my soul, letting me know that I was not alone, that I will never have to be alone, that there are friends and family and churches and coffee shops. I was not going to be cast into space.
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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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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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The truth is, if what we choose to do with our lives won't make a story meaningful, it won't make a life meaningful either.
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Self-discipline will never make us feel righteous or clean accepting God's love will.
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Great writers know what to cut out. It's the same in life. Clear ambitions. Clear relationships. This is the stuff of good story.
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