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
christian jesus people
And I found Jesus very disturbing, very straightforward. He wasn't diplomatic, and yet I felt like if I met Him, He would really like me. Don, I can't explain how freeing that was, to realize that if I met Jesus, He would like me. I never felt like that about some of the Christians on the radio. I always thought if I met those people they would yell at me. But it wasn't like that with Jesus.
falling-in-love accepting-god fuel
By accepting God's love for us, we fall in love with Him, and only then do we have the fuel we need to obey.
needs bigger awe
I need for there to be something bigger than me. I need someone to put awe inside me; I need to come second to someone who has everything figured out.
beautiful pain character
But the people who took the bus didn't experience the city as we experienced the city. The pain made the city more beautiful. The story made us different characters than we would have been if we had skipped the story and showed up at the ending an easier way.
mirrors figures congo
Nothing is going to change in congo until you and i figure out what is wrong with the person inside the mirror
honesty mean keys
If honesty is the key to intimacy, it means we don't have to be perfect and we don't have to pretend to be perfect.
thinking interesting waiting
Most of us are waiting. We're waiting for something interesting to happen. And I think we're going to wait forever if we don't do something more interesting with our lives.
writing discipline different
I used to write when I was in the mood or felt inspired. Anymore, I write whether I feel inspired or not. It's a discipline. So that's definitely different. It's part of maturing as a person and as a professional.
moving alive becoming
All relationships are living and alive and moving and becoming something.
reading writing ideas
I tend to write first drafts that are incredibly cognitive, very rational, very boring. They come off as justification. Like, 'This is my idea and here's all the reasons that it's right.' It doesn't make for very compelling reading.
new-york school goal
I started 'Storyline' after I'd accomplished all my goals and still wasn't happy. I'd become a 'New York Times' bestselling author, which was my goal from high school, and yet I was less happy after accomplishing my goals than I was before.
christian meaningful jesus
Christians might say that you can't live a more meaningful life without Jesus. Well, that's absolutely not true. You can. You can enjoy a sunrise whether you know Jesus or not.
men role-models roles
Without a positive male role model in your life, it is extremely difficult to become a man who benefits his family and benefits society.
writing reason memoir
The reason I like writing a memoir is because it isn't preachy.