Donald Miller

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

— Donald Miller

The ambitions we have will become the stories we live.

— Donald Miller

The reason I like writing a memoir is because it isn't preachy.

— Donald Miller

Your life is a blank page. You write on it.

— Donald Miller

...a beggar's kingdom is better than a proud man's delusion.

— Donald Miller

“pretty websites don’t sell things. Words sell things.”

— Donald Miller

Nobody will listen to you unless they sense that you like them.

— Donald Miller

“Reality is like fine wine: it does not appeal to children.”

— Donald Miller

Other people keep our souls alive, just like food and water does with our body.

— Donald Miller

If what you are doing is important, you will encounter resistance. If what you are doing isn't important it will be easy.

— Donald Miller

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

— Donald Miller

Fear is a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life.

— Donald Miller

How many people have damaged their own lives by mistaking enablement for grace?

— Donald Miller

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

A story is a character who wants something and overcomes conflict to get it.

— Donald Miller

I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me

— Donald Miller

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

— Donald Miller

“But in so many ways I'm still that kid, not sure exactly how to be emotionally intimate with a girl without feeling…

— Donald Miller

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

— Donald Miller

“The beauty of the inlet was nearly that of Peru, and I wondered at all this exposition God had created, as though…

— Donald Miller

“The great tragedy of our lives seems to be that we are smart enough to ask the questions of meaning but too…

— Donald Miller

“Victor Frankl whispered in my ear all the same. He said to me I was a tree in a story about a…

— Donald Miller

The human body essentially recreates itself every six months. Nearly every cell of hair and skin and bone dies and another is…

— Donald Miller

“...I love this about Christian spirituality. It cannot be explained, and yet it is beautiful and true. It is something you feel,…

— Donald Miller

“I think it is interesting that God designed people to need other people. We see those cigarette advertisements with the rugged cowboy…

— Donald Miller

“If raising healthy children involves telling the truth about the family narrative, that was something I could do. It would take some…

— Donald Miller

If we hear, in our inner ear, a voice saying we are failures, we are losers, we will never amount to anything,…

— Donald Miller

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

When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are. And when you stop expecting material…

— Donald Miller

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

The trouble with deep belief is that it costs something And there is something inside me, some selfish beast of a subtle…

— Donald Miller

They are lonely. I'm not talking about lonely for a lover or a friend. I mean lonely in the universal sense, lonely…

— Donald Miller

The truth is there are a million steps, and we don't even know what the steps are, and worse, at any given…

— Donald Miller

“Still i knew because of my own feelings there was something wrong with me and i knew it wasnt only me. I…

— Donald Miller

“Somewhere along the line I think many of us buy into a lie that we only matter if . . . We…

— Donald Miller

I don't wonder anymore what I'll tell God when I go to heaven when we sit in the chairs under the tree,…

— Donald Miller

I do not believe a person can take two issues from Scripture, those being abortion and gay marriage, and adhere to them…

— Donald Miller

“How a memory as startling as that had been lost for so long is a mystery. I knew in some ways I…

— Donald Miller

“I bring this up because in writing some thoughts about a father, or not having a father, I feel as though I'm…

— Donald Miller

“BUT THERE WAS SOMETHING QUITE BEAUTIFUL about this new thing with Betsy. She was taking me somewhere. I’d known enough older guys…

— Donald Miller