I took William Zinsser's advice that you write to yourself and you hope that there are people out there who are like… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen. — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
I'm just trying to make the point that the story we're telling ourselves is often very different from the story we're telling… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
The very scary thing about religion, to me, is that people actually believe God is who they think He is. — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
The people I used to be surrounded by are getting along without me. Somehow, that really bugs me. — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
People are lonely. They want company and your book can provide them company and a little bit of hope. And there's nothing… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
The more I try to impress people, the more I separate myself from them. Vulnerability attracts love. — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Lets choose to do something really difficult, something that saves lives, and let's do that thing with people we love. — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Some people skip through life. Others are dragged through it. I sometimes wonder if we are moving through time, or whether time… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
I didn't know how story worked. So, when writing the screenplay, people introduced me to the science of it. And I'm grateful.… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
It was a haunting feeling, the sort of sensation you get when you wonder whether you are two people, the other of… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
...I should have people around bugging me and getting under my skin because without people I could not grow - I could… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Much of the time I’ve spent trying to impress people has been a waste. The reality is people are impressed with all… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
It made me wonder if the reasons our lives seem so muddled is because we keep walking into scenes in which we,… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
But the people who took the bus didn't experience the city as we experienced the city. The pain made the city more… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
I posted the first three chapters and I had enough people say that chapter two was dragging that I cut it out… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Here's the truth about telling stories with your life. It's going to sound like a great idea, and you're going to get… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
There is a time when every person who encounters Jesus, who believes Jesus is the Son of God, decides that they will… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
When I walked into the Christian section of a bookstore, the message was clear: Faith is something you do alone. Rick does… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
The thing about new things is you feel new when you buy them, you feel as though you are somebody different because… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
I think this is when most people give up on their stories. They come out of college wanting to change the world,… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
...to be in a relationship with God is to be loved purely and furiously. And a person who thinks himself unlovable cannot… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
It is hard for us to admit we have a sin nature because we live in this system of checks and balances.… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
What I believe is not what I say I believe; what I believe is what I do. I used to say that… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
We don't think of our flaws as the glue that binds us to the people we love, but they are. Grace only… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
People who live great stories know failure isn’t a judgment, it’s an education. — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
I want to start replacing my “fix” response with an “enjoy” response and just let people be themselves. — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
If you don't feel free and be yourself, you can't connect. Find people who accept your quirks. They'll heal your soul. — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
It is when people do not allow God to show up through them ... that the world collapses in on itself. — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
We don't know how much we are capable of loving until the people we love are being taken away, until a beautiful… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
It blew my mind that what I was thinking was actually applicable to people's lives, and it certainly revolutionized family. — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Other people keep our souls alive, just like food and water does with our body. — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
True intimacy, the exchange of affection between two people who are not lying, is transforming. — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
How many people have damaged their own lives by mistaking enablement for grace? — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
A story is based on what people think is important, so when we live a story, we are telling people around us… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
There's a lot of letters, and a lot of people come say "hi" at book signings, but I'm amazed at how normal… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
...if I do not introduce people to Jesus, then I don't believe Jesus is an important person. It doesn't matter what I… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Flattery has a short battery life, but reminding people they are amazing and precious and wanted and works of art can truly… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
People want to join a great story. If you want to lead, tell one with your life. — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
For me, the beginning of sharing my faith with people began by throwing out Christianity and embracing Christian spirituality, a nonpolitical mysterious… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very… — Donald Miller Copy Share
If you don't feel free and be yourself, you can't connect. Find people who accept your quirks. They'll heal your soul. — Donald Miller Copy Share
And so I have come to understand that strength, inner strength, comes from receiving love as much as it comes from giving it. — Donald Miller Copy Share
“Humans, as a species, are constantly, and in every way, comparing themselves to one another, which, given the brief nature of their existence, seems… — Donald Miller Copy Share
“alone, lonely, and loneliness are three of the most powerful words in the English language... Those words say that we are human; they are… — Donald Miller Copy Share
“It isn't about what you don't get done; it's about what you do get done.” — Donald Miller Copy Share
“Most Christians have enormous respect for the space and freedom of others, it is only that they have found a joy in Jesus they… — Donald Miller Copy Share
There's a lot of letters, and a lot of people come say "hi" at book signings, but I'm amazed at how normal everybody is. — Donald Miller Copy Share
I am something of a recluse by nature. I am that cordless screwdriver that has to charge for twenty hours to earn ten minutes… — Donald Miller Copy Share
The most important thing that happens within Christian spirituality is when a person falls in love with Jesus. — Donald Miller Copy Share
Every day you live is a page. Every year, a chapter. Your life, a book. What is it about? — Donald Miller Copy Share
“And that’s the first time I realized that the idea a character is what he does makes as much sense in life as it… — Donald Miller Copy Share
