If you aren't telling a good story, nobody thinks you died too soon; they just think you died. — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation. — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
I asked God to help me understand the story of the forest and what it means to be a tree in that… — 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
My Sunday school teachers had turned Bible narrative into children's fables. They talked about Noah and the ark because the story had… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Without the Christian explanation of original sin, the seemingly silly story of Adam and Eve and the tree of the knowledge of… — 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
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
You can't tell a good story without conflict - the story can't be beautiful or meaningful. We're taught to run from conflict,… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Job found contentment and even joy, outside the context of comfort, health or stability. He understood the story was not about him,… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Christian spirituality was not a children's story. It wasn't cute or neat. It was mystical and odd and clean, and it was… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
The inciting incident is how you get (characters) to do something. It's the doorway through which they can't return, you know. The… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
I am early in my story, but I believe I will stretch out into eternity, and in heaven I will reflect upon… — 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
Robert McKee says humans naturally seek comfort and stability. Without an inciting incident that disrupts their comfort, they won’t enter into a… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
I've wondered, though, if one of the reasons we fail to acknowledge the brilliance of life is because we don't want the… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
We don't think much about how our love stories will affect the world, but they do. Children learn what's worth living for… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
We live in a world where bad stories are told, stories that teach us life doesn't mean anything and that humanity has… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
If I have a hope, it's that God sat over the dark nothing and wrote you and me, specifically, into the story… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Sometimes when I watch my dog, I think about how good life can be, if we only lose ourselves in our stories.… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
No, life cannot be understood flat on a page. It has to be lived; a person has to get out of his… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
*I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago... *So soon you will be in that part… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
He thought about the story his daughter was living and the role she was playing inside that story. He realized he hadn't… — 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
