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Love Quotes by Donald Miller

56 Love quotes by Donald Miller

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Strength comes from receiving love as much as giving it, and Miller writes that love fuels inner power. He describes falling in love with Jesus as a spiritual turning point, and he notes that love stories shape what children deem worth living for. He also likens being Christian to a lifelong romance, where risk and devotion intertwine.

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The greatest stories go to those who don’t give in to fear.

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“God has never withheld love to teach me a lesson.”

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The ambitions we have will become the stories we live.

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“God risked himself on me. I will risk myself on you.”

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You cannot be a Christian without being a mystic

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Great stories move through fear.

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The mountains themselves call us into greater stories.

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I don't find anyone more noble than Jesus.

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If you aren't telling a good story, nobody thinks you died too soon; they just think you died.

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It is no coincidence that Jesus talks endlessly about love. Free love. Unconditional love.

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Self-discipline will never make us feel righteous or clean; accepting God's love will.

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

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“It hurts now, but I'll love this memory, I thought to myself. And I do.”

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If we knew how much God loved us and was for us, we’d talk to Him all day long.

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

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

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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…

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“Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself. It is as if they are showing you…

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I think our society puts too much pressure on romantic love, and that is why so many romances fail. Romance can't possibly…

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When I was in love there was somebody in the world who was more important than me, and that, given all that…

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The times in my life when I have been most happy haven't been the times when I have had the most money…

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I loved the fact that it wasn't my responsibility to change somebody, that it was God's, that my part was just to…

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I used love like money, but love doesn't work like money. It is not a commodity. When we barter with it, we…

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We don't know how much we are capable of loving until the people we love are being taken away, until a beautiful…

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“I talk about love, forgiveness, social justice; I rage against American materialism in the name of alturism, but have I even controlled…

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No, life cannot be understood flat on a page. It has to be lived; a person has to get out of his…

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Earthly love… is temporal and slight so that is has to be given again and again in order for us to feel…

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“No, life cannot be understood flat on a page. It has to be lived; a person has to get out of his…

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“I don't mean to overstate what is yet unknown, but part of me believes when the story of earth is told, all…

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We don't think much about how our love stories will affect the world, but they do. Children learn what's worth living for…

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I fell in love with books. Some people find beauty in music, some in painting, some in landscape, but I find it…

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Much of the time I’ve spent trying to impress people has been a waste. The reality is people are impressed with all…

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“But love doesn’t control, and I suppose that’s why it’s the ultimate risk. In the end, we have to hope the person…

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“Considering what Adam went through to appreciate Eve to the utmost, I wondered how beautiful it is that you and I were…

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I will love you like God, because of God, mighted by the power of God. I will stop expecting your love, demanding…

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“What great gravity is this that drew my soul towards yours? What great force, that though I went falsely, went kicking, went…

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“The problem with Christian culture is we think of love as a commodity. We use it like money. [...] If something is…

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“And I go back to Eden, in my mind, to imagine what it is going to be like for you and me…

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“My belief in Jesus did not seem rational or scientific, and yet there was nothing I could do to separate myself from…

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“ I will give you this, my love, and I will not bargain or barter any longer. I will love you, as…

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