Donald Miller
Donald Miller
Donald "Don" Milleris a best-selling American author and public speaker based in Nashville, Tennessee who focuses on Christian spirituality as "an explanation for beauty, meaning, and the human struggle"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth12 August 1971
CountryUnited States of America
nice rivers easy
Meaning is something we experience more than we attain. It's like finding a nice, easy current in a river that carries you through life.
christian simple news
It confuses me that Christian living is not simpler. The gospel, the very good news, is simple.
beautiful stories conflict
If you have a beautiful story, it has to have conflict. If you don't have conflict, it can't be a good story.
church staff pastor
I'm not a pastor; I've never been on staff at a church.
thinking knowing-who-you-are understanding
I think understanding your life as a story is a really terrific way of kind of knowing where you are and knowing who you are.
confused chasing humans
Every human being is searching for a deep sense of meaning, and yet we're all chasing success. We've confused one for the other.
responsibility giving want
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.
christian fall men
One of the things I love about our source text as Christians, the Bible, is that it teaches us not to avoid conflict. And it teaches us that before the fall of man, in Paradise, there was conflict. God wants conflict to be a part of your life.
college reeds students
There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very authentically looking for truth.
running jobs reality
Much of the time I’ve spent trying to impress people has been a waste. The reality is people are impressed with all kinds of things: intelligence, power, money, charm, talent, and so on. But the ones we tend to stay in love with are, in the long run, the ones who do a decent job loving us back.
world stories attractive
The most attractive characteristic in a person is the story they are telling the world. We stop and stare at stories.
life-is meaningless
Maybe life isn't meaningless...Maybe just YOUR life is meaningless
children careers giving
God doesn't give us crying, pooping children because he wants to advance our careers.
cute cat two
The thing about being irresponsible is it's only cute till you are about twenty-two or so, then it becomes a liability. One day you wake up under a pizza box, the television blaring in your bedroom, the laundry piled up over what might be a bedside table, and you ask yourself: 'How did my life get like this? Why don't people like me? Didn't I have a cat and what is that smell?'