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
twenties needs use
I am something of a recluse by nature. I am that cordless screwdriver that has to charge for twenty hours to earn ten minutes use. I need that much downtime.
book writing quitting
I love writing books - I really do. If I could just quit everything and work on a book every day, I would love that most.
self accepting-god discipline
Self-discipline will never make us feel righteous or clean; accepting God's love will.
religious strong real
And there is something profoundly humbling about knowing God. I’m not talking about the trinket God or the genie-in-a-lamp God. I mean the God who invented the tree in my front yard, the beauty of my sweetheart, the taste of a blueberry, the violence of a river at flood. There are a lot of religious trends that would have us controlling God, telling us that if we do this that and the other, God will jump through our hoops like a monkey. But this other God, this real God, is awesome and strong, all-encompassing and passionate, and for reasons I will never understand, he wants to father us.
book mean people
I fell in love with books. Some people find beauty in music, some in painting, some in landscape, but I find it in words. By beauty, I mean the feeling you have suddenly glimpsed another world, or looked into a portal that reveals a kind of magic or romance out of which the world has been constructed, a feeling there is something more than the mundane, and a reason for our plodding.
way genius want
There's a genius part of you that wants to create. That part of you wants to talk to God. Get out of the way.
two choices get-better
When something happens to you, you have two choices in how to deal with it. You can either get bitter, or get better.
self-esteem believe talking
I don't know why it is, exactly, but the people with the healthiest self-esteem, are also the greatest at intimacy. I'm not talking about arrogant people. I'm talking about people who know they are both good and bad yet believe at the deepest level they are really good for people.
running simple growth
It is always the simple things that change our lives. And these things never happen when you are looking for them to happen. Life will reveal answers at the pace life wishes to do so. You feel like running, but life is on a stroll. This is how God does things.
thinking people imperfection
We don't think of our flaws as the glue that binds us to the people we love, but they are. Grace only sticks to your imperfections.
long god-love ifs
If we knew how much God loved us and was for us, we’d talk to Him all day long.
thinking creative important
Every creative person, and I think probably every other person, faces resistance when they are trying to create something good...The harder the resistance, the more important the task must be.
people want enjoy
I want to start replacing my “fix” response with an “enjoy” response and just let people be themselves.
christian religious believe
I believe the greatest trick of the devil is not to get us into some sort of evil but rather have us wasting time. This is why the devil tries so hard to get Christians to be religious. If he can sink a man's mind into habit, he will prevent his heart from engaging God. I was into habit.