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
trying half knows
Half the time I don't know what I'm trying to say.
writing thinking trying
Before I studied story, I was trying to write a novel, and it was terrible. It wasn't going anywhere, and I couldn't figure out what I was trying to do. It was really hard; much harder than I thought it was going to be. Now that I've studied story, I think I'd have a different approach and maybe I could actually get it done.
book trying half
Half the time I pick up a book, that's what I'm trying to get.
falling-in-love real trying
I can't do it. It would be like, say, trying to fall in love with somebody, or trying to convince yourself that your favorite food is pancakes. You don't decide those things, they just happen to you. If God is real, He needs to happen to me.
art trying communicate
Most great art is created when the artist feels they are channeling something rather than trying to communicate something.
people trying stories
I'm just trying to make the point that the story we're telling ourselves is often very different from the story we're telling the people around us.
real giving trying
I heard once that real love doesn't ask what is in it for me; it just gives unconditionally. It just tries to take the weight out of somebody else's pack, lessen his load, and if it gets reciprocated, that's great, but that isn't what you did it for.
people trying impress
The more I try to impress people, the more I separate myself from them. Vulnerability attracts love.
christian heart trying
Too much of our time is spent trying to chart God on a grid, and too little is spent allowing our hearts to feel awe. By reducing Christian spirituality to formula, we deprive our hearts of wonder.
england far north snow
The significant snow didn't get as far north into New England as anticipated.
beautiful meaningful running
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.
becoming city consumers educating mexicans mexico serious starting themselves
Mexicans are educating themselves and becoming serious consumers of wine, and sommeliers in Mexico City are starting to take notice.
fund funding help kick money problem unless
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.