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
jesus jobs hero
I think, in the grand epic, Jesus is the hero of our stories. And our stories, as they were, are subplots in a grand epic and our job is not to be the hero of any story. Our job is to be a saint in a story that he is telling.
cute christian children
Christian spirituality was not a children's story. It wasn't cute or neat. It was mystical and odd and clean, and it was reaching into dirty. There was wonder in it and enchantment.
jesus unconditional-love free-love
It is no coincidence that Jesus talks endlessly about love. Free love. Unconditional love.
believe struggle long
My most recent faith struggle is not one of intellect. I don’t really do that anymore. Sooner or later you just figure out there are some guys who don’t believe in God and they can prove He doesn't exist, and there are some other guys who do believe in God and they can prove He does exist, and the argument stopped being about God a long time ago and now it’s about who is smarter, and honestly I don’t care.
beautiful running jesus
I think Jesus is saying, Look, you guys are running around like monkeys trying to get people to clap, but people are fallen, they are separated from God, so they have no idea what is good or bad, worthy to be judged or set free, beautiful or ugly to begin with. Why not get your glory from God? Why not accept your feelings of redemption because of His pleasure in you, not the fickle and empty favor of man? And only then will you know who you are, and only then will you have true, uninhibited relationships with others.
jobs joy contentment
Job found contentment and even joy, outside the context of comfort, health or stability. He understood the story was not about him, and he cared more about the story then he did about himself.
meaningful cheating telling-the-truth
Telling the truth is the slow, mundane, difficult route to a meaningful life. Anything else is cheating.
art trying communicate
Most great art is created when the artist feels they are channeling something rather than trying to communicate something.
writing thinking super-power
I think each of us can, through our writing, discover our super power
listening stories life-story
I often learn more about myself from listening to the life story of a friend than I do reflecting on my own story.
should-have people skins
...I should have people around bugging me and getting under my skin because without people I could not grow - I could not grow in God, and I could not grow as a human.
chocolate salad knows
I always thought the Bible was more of a salad thing, you know, but it isn't. It's a chocolate thing.
distance believe years
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.
christian falling-in-love jesus
The most important thing that happens within Christian spirituality is when a person falls in love with Jesus.