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
selfish believe responsibility
The trouble with deep belief is that it costs something And there is something inside me, some selfish beast of a subtle thing that doesn't like the truth at all because it carries responsibility, and if I actually believe these things I have to do something about them. It is so, so cumbersome to believe anything. And it isn't cool.
responsibility giving want
We don't naturally want to take responsibility for our lives. We want to give the responsibility to someone else. We blame them when our lives aren't good.
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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.
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The significant snow didn't get as far north into New England as anticipated.
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You can't tell a good story without conflict - the story can't be beautiful or meaningful. We're taught to run from conflict, and it's robbing us of some really good stories.
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Mexicans are educating themselves and becoming serious consumers of wine, and sommeliers in Mexico City are starting to take notice.
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I have a real problem with (solely funding the program) unless the townships kick in some money to help fund it,
homecoming students
We will look at what students want Hood's homecoming to be.
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There is something more than music here, and only one in a million bands can get to this place,
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We have to have positive male role models.
book giving people
I posted chapters online and let people give feedback, and I was surprised at how much of that feedback I actually used for the book.I posted chapters online and let people give feedback, and I was surprised at how much of that feedback I actually used for the book. It was a different process for me, but I liked it.
issues abortion important
If the abortion issue is important to me, this is how you tackle that issue.
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If you buy the website, maybe you'll do something with it. But so far I haven't; we'll see.
kids america church
There are about 360,000 churches in America, so we could mentor a million kids within a short period of time if everyone signed on, which, of course, is a pipedream, but we're going to reach toward that.