Donald Miller Quotes - Page 11

Instead of asking what it feels like to follow God or be used by God, we should be asking who God is, and whether we really know Him. Everything else will take care of itself.

It is worthy of note that the Chinese and Japanese characters for money and gold are the same.

Do I still think there will be a day when all the wrongs are made right, when our souls find the completion they are looking for? I do. But when all things are made right, it won’t be because of some preacher or snake-oil salesman or politician or writer making promises in his book. I think, instead, this will be done by Jesus. And it will be at a wedding. And there will be a feast.

True intimacy, the exchange of affection between two people who are not lying, is transforming.

The downside of being a writer is you get plenty of time to overthink your life.

And when you find love, or when you are mature enough to understand it, the feeling you get is gratitude.

In exchange for our humility and willingness to accept the charity of God, we are given a kingdom. And a beggar's kingdom is better than a proud man's delusion.

Right, but you know, what would any of us lose by losing our possessions. Maybe we would gain something, like relationships, like the beauty of good friends, intimacy, you know what I mean, man? Like we wouldn't be losing anything if we lost our stuff, we'd be gaining everything.

What do markets do? They consolidate, they breakout, they extend, they overextend, they back and fill, they consolidate, and repeat the process. That's all you need to know about the markets.

Let probability and sample size do the heavy lifting.

The people I used to be surrounded by are getting along without me. Somehow, that really bugs me.

It was a haunting feeling, the sort of sensation you get when you wonder whether you are two people, the other of which does things you can't explain, bad and terrible things.

I know, from the three visits I made to him, the blended composite of love and fear that exists only in a boy's notion of his father.

I'm not a pastor; I've never been on staff at a church.

If you have a beautiful story, it has to have conflict. If you don't have conflict, it can't be a good story.

Great writers know what to cut out. It's the same in life. Clear ambitions. Clear relationships. This is the stuff of good story.

A story is a character who wants something and overcomes conflict to get it.

It confuses me that Christian living is not simpler. The gospel, the very good news, is simple.

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.

Maybe life isn't meaningless...Maybe just YOUR life is meaningless

All relationships are living and alive and moving and becoming something.

People are lonely. They want company and your book can provide them company and a little bit of hope. And there's nothing wrong with that.

The reason I like writing a memoir is because it isn't preachy.

The thing about new things is you feel new when you buy them, you feel as though you are somebody different because you own something different. We are our possessions, you know. There are people who get addicted to buying new stuff. Things. Piles and piles of things. But the new things become old things so quickly. We need new things to replace the old things.

All my books have been titled based on a piece of the prose from inside the book.