Keith Miller Quotes

I'll tell you what pressure is. Pressure is a Messerschmitt up your arse. Playing cricket is not.

The way to love someone is to lightly run your finger over that person's soul until you find a crack, and then gently pour your love into that crack.

A Christian marriage is [not] one with no problems or even a marriage with fewer problems. (It may well mean more problems.) But it does mean a life in which two people are able to accept each other and love each other in the midst of problems and fears. It means a marriage in which selfish people can accept selfish people without constantly trying to change them -- and even accept themselves, because they realize personally that they have been accepted by Christ.

I am deeply a part of the problem for which Christ died.

Memories must enter the bloodstream, must churn awhile through the heart's mill, must be crushed and polished, be nearly forgotten or cling like burs to other stories before they spill forth in purple patterns, shapes of small bones and worm rot, shapes of clouds and the spaces between leaves.

Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth.

But keep characters in propinquity long enough and a story will always develop a plot.

I am discovering that in trying to find God's will and the shape of the Christian life I have begun an adventure so great that its total completion will always be ahead.

Prayer no longer seems like an activity to me; it has become the continuing language of the relationship I believe God designed to fulfill a human life.

I wrote a book called The Taste of New Wine because I couldn't find a book that talked about the reality of the situation and how we were dishonest and afraid.

I have learned to like myself for the first time and to have some serenity.

I grew up and I became very successful at what I did as a young man. I became a work addict because this was the only way I could get any relief from this pain.

Intimacy, as I am using it, is sharing my reality with you.

I learned that the purpose of the Twelve Steps is to do the will of God.

My only hope to receive love is to let you see who I am, then I may believe you.

All I have to tell you about is what I have heard and seen of Jesus, how He is helping me find freedom, to occasionally love other people, and even accept myself with all my mixed motives.

The problem is that this speeded-up life and stress in America causes us to cut off our feelings, so we are out of touch with our reality.

The primary symptom of a controller is denial, that is I can't see its symptoms in myself.

I remember when I was a little boy my father didn't love me; he couldn't. He loved my older brother but he couldn't love me somehow, at least not in a way I could understand it.

The whole Bible is the story of men and women trying to get back to God, to overcome that sin with sacrifices, good works, sermons, prophesy, witnessing, giving all kinds of things. It never worked

Beneath all of these addictions is this disease, this control disease which is the mark of our society.

We can't be intimate because we can't share feelings that we don't have

A spiritual person is also in touch with his or her own reality, feelings and thoughts, and the reality of the people around him or her, not projecting on them.

A lot of us have jobs where we need to give people structure but that is different from controlling.

We live in a constant fear that our shortcomings will be exposed to family, to friends and to the world