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
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.
watches sometimes
...sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself...
falling-in-love believe love-is
Believing in God is as much like falling in love as it is making a decision. Love is both something that happens to you and something you decide upon.
together stories taste
And once you live a good story, you get a taste for a kind of meaning in life, and you can't go back to being normal; you can't go back to meaningless scenes stitched together by the forgettable thread of wasted time.
fall men miracle
When I was in love there was somebody in the world who was more important than me, and that, given all that happened at the fall of man, is a miracle, like something God forgot to curse.