I think our society puts too much pressure on romantic love, and that is why so many romances fail. Romance can't possibly… — 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 Children Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself. It is as if they are showing you… — Donald Miller Body love Copy Share Image
I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“All this gave way to my first encounter with guilt, which is still something entirely inscrutable to me, as if aliens were… — Donald Miller Christianity 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 Care Copy Share Image
“Humans are designed to seek comfort and order, and so if they have comfort and order, they tend to plant themselves, even… — Donald Miller Comfort Copy Share Image
Moral #1: "If you work hard, stay focused, and never give up, you will eventually get what you want in life." Moral… — Donald Miller Character Copy Share Image
“When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you like them for who they are. And when you stop expecting material possessions… — Donald Miller Expectations Copy Share Image
“I don't mean to overstate what is yet unknown, but part of me believes when the story of earth is told, all… — Donald Miller Inspirational Copy Share Image
At the time, I didn't know what forgiveness meant. I wouldn't really know what forgiveness meant for another year, until my pastor,… — Donald Miller Another year Copy Share Image
My most recent faith struggle is not one of intellect. I don’t really do that anymore. Sooner or later you just figure… — Donald Miller Argument 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 Fall in love Copy Share Image
I didnt like being reminded about how self-absorbed i was. I wanted to be over this, done with this. I didnt want… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
When I started studying the issue and issues related to fatherlessness, I realized I had all of them. Fear of intimacy, fear… — Donald Miller Commitment Copy Share Image
“If I was going to make Betsy happy, I’d have to trust that my flaws were the ways through which I would… — Donald Miller People We Love 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 Comfort Copy Share Image
When a relationship is right, it is no more possible to wake up and want out of the marriage than it is… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Every creative person, and I think probably every other person, faces resistance when they are trying to create something good...The harder the… — Donald Miller Creative Copy Share Image
We don't naturally want to take responsibility for our lives. We want to give the responsibility to someone else. We blame them… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
I think writers would do better to consider that idea [to write to yourself], because you know yourself really well, and you… — Donald Miller Demographics Copy Share Image
I'm the kind of person who wants to present my most honest, authentic self to the world, so I hide backstage and… — Donald Miller Authentic self Copy Share Image
“The point of a story is never about the ending, remember. It’s about your character getting molded in the hard work of… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Let's show up to life. Let's prove how beautiful it can really be. Let's face the conflict, redeem it, conquer it, and… — Donald Miller Beautiful Copy Share Image
“There is something inside me, some selfish beast of a subtle thing that doesn't like truth at all because it carries responsibility.” — 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 Art Copy Share Image
“misery, though seemingly ridiculous, indicates life itself has the potential of meaning, and therefore pain itself must also have meaning.” — Donald Miller Life 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… — Donald Miller College 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 Beautiful Copy Share Image
“I think loving Jesus is something you feel. I think it is something very difficult to get on paper. But it is… — Donald Miller Loving Copy Share Image
Believing in God is as much like falling in love as it is making a decision. Love is both something that happens… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
It is always the simple things that change our lives. And these things never happen when you are looking for them to… — Donald Miller Life Copy Share Image
I am a person of faith, so I come from a community that's involved in 360,000 churches across the country, that is… — Donald Miller Church Copy Share Image
And I found Jesus very disturbing, very straightforward. He wasn't diplomatic, and yet I felt like if I met Him, He would… — Donald Miller Christian 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 Absence Copy Share Image
“I want you to understand that God has never been nor will ever be invented. He is not a product of any… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“Here is nearly every story you see or hear in a nutshell: A CHARACTER who wants something encounters a PROBLEM before they… — Donald Miller Success Copy Share Image
It comforts me to think that if we are created beings the thing that created us would have to be greater than… — 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 Book Copy Share Image
Earthly love… is temporal and slight so that is has to be given again and again in order for us to feel… — Donald Miller Affirmation Copy Share Image