01UndatedIt wasn't necessary to win for the story to be great, it was only necessary to sacrifice everything.Donald Miller / quote ↗
02UndatedI will love you like God, because of God, mighted by the power of God. I will stop expecting your love, demanding your love, trading for your love, gaming for your love. I will simply love. I am giving myself to you, and tomorrow I will do it again. I suppose the clock itself will wear thin its time before I am ended at this altar of dying and dying again. God risked Himself on me. I will risk myself on you. And together, we will learn to love, and perhaps then, and only then, understand this gravity that drew Him, unto us.Donald Miller / quote ↗
03UndatedA story is based on what people think is important, so when we live a story, we are telling people around us what we think is important.Donald Miller / quote ↗
04UndatedThe same principles that make up a good story also make up a good life.Donald Miller / quote ↗
05UndatedI lay there under the stars and thought of what a great responsibility it is to be human.Donald Miller / quote ↗
06UndatedThe repentance we are called to is about choosing one audience over another.Donald Miller / quote ↗
07UndatedAbout the time I told God that He didn't exist, I was desperate for an identity.Donald Miller / quote ↗
08UndatedA big part of me needed something outside myself to tell me who I was. The thing that had been designed to tell me who I was was gone.Donald Miller / quote ↗
11UndatedFor a long time, I thought I was good at relationships because I was charming.Donald Miller / quote ↗
12UndatedPaul was terribly personal. The books I like are the ones that make you feel like you are with a person who is being quite vulnerable, telling you all sorts of stuff that is personal, and that's the thing Paul did that makes me like him.Donald Miller / quote ↗
13UndatedIf the Gospel of Jesus is relational, that is, if our brokenness will be fixed not by our understanding of theology but by God telling us who we are, then this would require a kind of intimacy of which only Heaven knows.Donald Miller / quote ↗
14UndatedLife has a peculiar feel when you look back on it that it doesn't have when you're actually living it. It's as though the whole thing were designed to be understood in hindsight, as though you'll never know the meaning of your experiences until you've had enough of them to provide reference.Donald Miller / quote ↗
15UndatedYou get a feeling when you look back on life that all God really wants from us is to live inside a body He made, and enjoy the story, and to bond with Him through the experience.Donald Miller / quote ↗
16UndatedBut love doesn’t control, and I suppose that’s why it’s the ultimate risk. In the end, we have to hope the person we’re giving our heart to won’t break it, and be willing to forgive them when they do, even as they will forgive us. Real love stories don’t have dictators, they have participants. Love is an ever-changing, complicated, choose-your-own adventure narrative that offers the world but guarantees nothing. When you climb a mountain or sail an ocean, you’re rewarded for staying in control. Perhaps that’s another reason true intimacy is so frightening. It’s the one thing we all want, and must give up control to get.Donald Miller / quote ↗
17UndatedJust out of high school, you didn't realize you were creating drama for the sake of drama.Donald Miller / quote ↗
18UndatedThe reason stories have dramatic tension is because LIFE has dramatic tension.Donald Miller / quote ↗
19UndatedIf you think about it, we get robbed of the mystery of being alive. I think we get robbed of the glory of it because we don't remember how we got here. When you get born, you wake up slowly to everything. From birth to 26, God is slowly turning on the lights, and you are groggy and pointing at things, and say "Circle," and, "Blue,", and, "Car," and, "Sex," and then, "Job," and, "Healthcare". The experience is so slow, you could easily come to believe life isn't that big of a deal, that life isn't staggering. Life IS staggering, and we are just too used to it.Donald Miller / quote ↗
20UndatedWhen I walked into the Christian section of a bookstore, the message was clear: Faith is something you do alone. Rick does not have much tolerance for people living alone. He’s like Bill Clinton in that he feels everyone’s pain. If Rick thinks somebody is lonely, he can’t sleep at night. He wants us all to live with each other and play nice so he can get some rest. Tortured soul.Donald Miller / quote ↗
21UndatedThe problem is this: those of us who are never satisfied with our accomplishments secretly believe nobody will love us unless we’re perfect.Donald Miller / quote ↗
22UndatedI learned that true love turns the other cheek, does not take a wrong into account, loves all people regardless of their indifference or hostility.Donald Miller / quote ↗
23Undated...the words alone, lonely, and loneliness are three of the most powerful words in the English language...those words say that we are human; they are like the words hunger and thirst. But they are not words about the body, they are words about the soul.Donald Miller / quote ↗
24UndatedWhat if part of God's message to the world was you, the true and real you?Donald Miller / quote ↗
