A story is a character who wants something and overcomes conflict to get it. — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
God doesn't give us crying, pooping children because he wants to advance our careers. — 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
People want to join a great story. If you want to lead, tell one with your life. — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Sometimes the things we want most in life are the things that will kill us. — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
...I want my spirituality to rid me of hate, not give me reason for it. — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
I love to give to charity, but I don't want to be charity. This is why I have so much trouble with… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
If you want to bond with your friends, do something very hard with them, something that you won't be able to do… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
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
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
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
Moral #1: "If you work hard, stay focused, and never give up, you will eventually get what you want in life." Moral… — Donald Miller 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 Copy Share Image
I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago, because a mind was made fo figure things… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Life is a story. You and I are telling stories; they may suck, but we are telling stories. And we tell stories… — 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
One of the things I love about our source text as Christians, the Bible, is that it teaches us not to avoid… — 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
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
*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
But playing your music as loud as you want and coming home drunk aren't real life. Real life, it turns out, is… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, when I am lying in bed and I know the chances of any of our theology… — 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
I do not believe a person can take two issues from Scripture, those being abortion and gay marriage, and adhere to them… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
More than my questions about the efficacy of social actions were my questions about my own motives. Do i want social justice… — 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
And there is something profoundly humbling about knowing God. I’m not talking about the trinket God or the genie-in-a-lamp God. I mean… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
If you watched a movie about a guy who wanted a Volvo and worked for years to get it, you wouldn’t cry… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
When we do what God wants us to do, we are blessed, we are spiritually healthy. — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
I think the things we want most in life, the things we think will set us free, are not the thing we… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
There's a genius part of you that wants to create. That part of you wants to talk to God. Get out of… — 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
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
Humans are designed to seek comfort and order, and so if they have comfort and order, they tend to plant themselves, even… — 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
As a human, I am flawed in that it is difficult for me to consider others before myself. It feels like I… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
I kept imagining these people, just living their daily lives, and then having them suddenly ended in unjust tragedy. When we watch… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Everybody wants to be fancy and new. Nobody wants to be themselves. I mean, maybe people want to be themselves, but they… — 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
