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Good writers show rather than tell. Stories are told in action. Life stories are no different.

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 think if you like somebody you have to tell them. It might be embarrassing to say it, but you will never regret stepping up. I know from personal experience, however, that you should not keep telling a girl that you like her after she tells you she isn't into it. You should not keep riding your bike by her house either.
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If the abortion issue is important to me, this is how you tackle that issue.
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There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing.
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Half the time I don't know what I'm trying to say.
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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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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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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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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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It occurs to me it is not so much the aim of the devil to lure me with evil as it is to preoccupy me with the meaningless.
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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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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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