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
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.
responsibility approval facts
I loved the fact that it wasn't my responsibility to change somebody, that it was God's, that my part was just to communicate love and approval.
hate giving want
...I want my spirituality to rid me of hate, not give me reason for it.
ideas people want
It made me wonder if the reasons our lives seem so muddled is because we keep walking into scenes in which we, along with the people around us, have no clear idea what we want.
people stories judgment
People who live great stories know failure isn’t a judgment, it’s an education.
thinking romantic-love romance
I think our society puts too much pressure on romantic love, and that is why so many romances fail. Romance can't possibly carry all that we want it to.
song heart writing
Be encouraged. Your heart is writing a poem on the world and it's being turned into a thousand songs.
moving stories
Great stories move through fear.
distance two evil
It's not what people do that scares me. It's what they hide. It's the secrets that keep us from bonding and create distrust. If we were more willing to accept each other's depravity we'd be more united, we'd be more honest. If you hide two things from me, I'll assume you're hiding a million. And I'll keep you at a distance. I'm not afraid of the evil in you. It's in me too.
giving stories safe
Fear isn’t only a guide to keep us safe; it’s also a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life … the great stories go to those who don’t give in to fear.
lying stories life-is
The most difficult lie I have ever contended with is this: life is a story about me.