Donald Miller Quotes - Page 2

People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen.

If you want to bond with your friends, do something very hard with them, something that you won't be able to do alone.

What I’m saying is I think life is staggering and we’re just used to it. We all are like spoiled children no longer impressed with the gifts we’re given—it’s just another sunset, just another rainstorm moving in over the mountain, just another child being born, just another funeral.

There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing.

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.

A story is based on what people think is important, so when we live a story, we are telling people around us what we think is important.

Imagine, a Being with a mind as great as God's, with feet like trees and a voice like rushing wind, telling you that you are His cherished creation.

I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me

When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are. And when you stop expecting material possessions to complete you, you'd be surprised at how much pleasure you get in material possessions. And when you stop expecting God to end all your troubles, you'd be surprised how much you like spending time with God.

Relationships unlock certain parts of who we are supposed to be.

It’s interesting that in the Bible, in the book of Ecclesiastes, the only practical advice given about living a meaningful life is to find a job you like, enjoy your marriage, and obey God. It’s as though God is saying, Write a good story, take somebody with you, and let me help.

It is always the simple things that change our lives. And these things never happen when you are looking for them to happen. Life will reveal answers at the pace life wishes to do so. You feel like running, but life is on a stroll. This is how God does things.

There are two types of men in this world--one is looking for a woman to make his life complete and the other is looking for a woman to join his complete life.

In the age of information, ignorance is a choice.

The mountains themselves call us into greater stories.

We don't think of our flaws as the glue that binds us to the people we love, but they are. Grace only sticks to your imperfections.

I think Jesus is saying, Look, you guys are running around like monkeys trying to get people to clap, but people are fallen, they are separated from God, so they have no idea what is good or bad, worthy to be judged or set free, beautiful or ugly to begin with. Why not get your glory from God? Why not accept your feelings of redemption because of His pleasure in you, not the fickle and empty favor of man? And only then will you know who you are, and only then will you have true, uninhibited relationships with others.

Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself.

If you don't feel free and be yourself, you can't connect. Find people who accept your quirks. They'll heal your soul.

Nobody will listen to you unless they sense that you like them.

No love is conditional. If love is conditional, it’s just some sort of manipulation masquerading as love.

What we really need is somebody who loves us so much we don’t worry about death, or about [anything for that matter]… We need this; we need this so we can love other people purely and not for selfish gain, we need this so we can see everybody as equals, we need this so our relationships can be sincere, we need this so we can stop kicking ourselves around, we need this so we can lose all self-awareness and find ourselves for the first time, not by realizing some dream, but by being told who we are by the only Being who has the authority to know, by that I mean the Creator.

The times in my life when I have been most happy haven't been the times when I have had the most money or the most freedom or the most anything, but rather when I've been in love or in community or right with people.

There's a genius part of you that wants to create. That part of you wants to talk to God. Get out of the way.

I want to start replacing my “fix” response with an “enjoy” response and just let people be themselves.