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From Quotes by Donald Miller
- If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation. If I got any…
- Sometimes I wish I could go back in time, sit down with myself and explain that things were going to be okay, that everybody loses…
- It's not what people do that scares me. It's what they hide. It's the secrets that keep us from bonding and create distrust. If we…
- I stay away from churches in which I feel like I have to pretend I'm a better person than I am. That sort of thing…
- I often learn more about myself from listening to the life story of a friend than I do reflecting on my own story.
- I started 'Storyline' after I'd accomplished all my goals and still wasn't happy. I'd become a 'New York Times' bestselling author, which was my goal…
- I'm amazed at how much my writing is improved when I step away from the computer, even in small amounts. If I'm stuck, I vacuum…
- The more I try to impress people, the more I separate myself from them. Vulnerability attracts love.
- I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago, because a mind was made fo figure things out, not to…
- I know, from the three visits I made to him, the blended composite of love and fear that exists only in a boy's notion of…
- I believe the greatest trick of the devil is not to get us into some sort of evil but rather have us wasting time. This…
- I do not believe a person can take two issues from Scripture, those being abortion and gay marriage, and adhere to them as sins, then…
- *I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago... *So soon you will be in that part of the book…
- ...to be in a relationship with God is to be loved purely and furiously. And a person who thinks himself unlovable cannot be in a…
- I think Jesus is saying, Look, you guys are running around like monkeys trying to get people to clap, but people are fallen, they are…
- It comforts me to think that if we are created beings the thing that created us would have to be greater than us, so much…
- And so I have come to understand that strength, inner strength, comes from receiving love as much as it comes from giving it.
- Robert McKee says humans naturally seek comfort and stability. Without an inciting incident that disrupts their comfort, they won’t enter into a story. They have…
- The most often repeated commandment in the Bible is 'Do not fear.' It's in there over two hundred times. That means a couple of things,…
- I think if you like somebody you have to tell them. It might be embarrassing to say it, but you will never regret stepping up.…
- But playing your music as loud as you want and coming home drunk aren't real life. Real life, it turns out, is diapers and lawnmowers,…
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