Donald Miller Quotes about Falling In Love

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Believing in God is as much like falling in love as it is making a decision. Love is both something that happens to you and something you decide upon.

Believing in God is as much like falling in love as it is making a decision. Love is both something that happens to you and something you decide upon.

Donald Miller

Falling In Love, Believe, Love Is

Donald Miller (2012). “Blue Like Jazz: Movie Edition: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality”, p.104, Thomas Nelson Inc

No, life cannot be understood flat on a page. It has to be lived; a person has to get out of his head, has to fall in love, has to memorize poems, has to jump off bridges into rivers, has to stand in an empty desert and whisper sonnets under his breath... We get one story, you and I, and one story alone. God has established the elements, the setting and the climax and resolution. It would be a crime not to venture out, wouldn't it?" -Donald Miller,Through Painted Deserts

Donald Miller

Falling In Love, Rivers, Bridges

Donald Miller (2005). “Through Painted Deserts: Light, God, and Beauty on the Open Road”, p.11, Harper Collins

The truth is there are a million steps, and we don't even know what the steps are, and worse, at any given moment we may not be willing or even able to take them; and still worse, they are different for you and they are always changing. I have come to believe the sooner we will fall in love with the God who keeps shaking things up, keeps changing the path, keeps rocking the boat to test our faith in Him, teaching us to not rely on easy answers, bullet points, magic mantras, or genies in lamps, but rather in His guidance, His existence, His mercy, and His love.

Donald Miller

Falling In Love, Teaching, Believe

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.

Donald Miller

Falling In Love, Accepting God, Needs

Donald Miller (2007). “Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God”, p.55, Thomas Nelson Inc

The most important thing that happens within Christian spirituality is when a person falls in love with Jesus.

Donald Miller

Christian, Falling In Love, Jesus

Donald Miller (2007). “Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God”, p.134, Thomas Nelson Inc

And through a dark night of the soul, I came to realize that salvation happens through a mysterious, indefinable, relational interaction with Jesus in which we become one with Him. I realized Christian conversion worked more like falling in love than understanding a series of concepts of ideas. This is not to say there are no true ideas, it is only to say there is something else, something beyond.

Donald Miller

Christian, Falling In Love, Jesus

Being a Christian is more like falling in love than understanding a series of ideas.

Donald Miller

Christian, Falling In Love, Ideas

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.

Donald Miller

Falling In Love, Real, Trying

Donald Miller (2007). “Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God”, p.32, Thomas Nelson Inc