Donald MillerIt made me wonder if the reasons our lives seem so muddled is because we keep walking into scenes in which we, along with the people around us, have no clear idea what we want. 362HumanityLifeThought
Donald MillerI think Jesus is saying, Look, you guys are running around like monkeys trying to get people to clap, but people are fallen, they are separated from God, so they have no idea what… ▶351HumanityReadingThought
Donald MillerThe heart responds to the conflict within a story.351Love
Donald MillerDying for something is easy because it is associated with glory. Living for something is the hard thing. Living for something extends beyond fashion, glory, or recognition. We liv… ▶373DeathLifeReading
Donald MillerA story is based on what people think is important, so when we live a story, we are telling people around us what we think is important. ✨ Donald Miller (2009). A Million Mi… ▶352HumanityLifeThought
Donald MillerWhen you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are. And when you stop expecting material possessions to complete you, you'd be surprised at how much … ▶341HumanityLifeTime
Donald MillerIf I have a hope, it's that God sat over the dark nothing and wrote you and me, specifically, into the story and put us in with the sunset and the rainstorm as though to say, “Enj… ▶374HopeLife
Donald MillerI never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when I saw a man playing the saxophone. I stood there for f… ▶342LoveThoughtTime
Donald MillerI will love you like God, because of God, mighted by the power of God. I will stop expecting your love, demanding your love, trading for your love, gaming for your love. I will si… ▶375DeathLovePolitics
Donald MillerTHINGS JESUS NEVER SAID: You should come with me to church. ✨ FaceBook post byDonald Miller from Mar 13, 2012342Reading
Donald MillerMore than my questions about the efficacy of social actions were my questions about my own motives. Do i want social justice for the oppressed or do i jusy want to be known as a s… ▶353LifeReadingThought
Donald MillerMeaningful stories have lots and lots of conflict. If we avoid conflict, our stories won't be meaningful. ✨ Twitter post from Aug 10, 2015331Philosophy
Donald MillerOur lives have a countdown clock that we can't see. Mine reminds me to only do work that matters. ✨ Twitter post from Oct 09, 2015364Thought
Donald MillerAnd 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 the God who invented the tree in my front ya… ▶364Love
Donald MillerI want to start replacing my “fix” response with an “enjoy” response and just let people be themselves.365Humanity
Donald MillerMy Sunday school teachers had turned Bible narrative into children's fables. They talked about Noah and the ark because the story had animals in it. They failed to mention that th… ▶332HumanitySadness
Donald MillerI kept imagining these people, just living their daily lives, and then having them suddenly ended in unjust tragedy. When we watch the news, we grieve all of this, but when we go … ▶332HumanityLifeThought
Donald MillerSomehow I had come to believe that because a person is in need, they are candidates for sympathy, not just charity. It was not that I wanted to buy her groceries, the government w… ▶343PoliticsReadingSadness
Donald MillerPeople who live great stories know failure isn’t a judgment, it’s an education.366Humanity
Donald MillerWhen I walked into the Christian section of a bookstore, the message was clear: Faith is something you do alone. Rick does not have much tolerance for people living alone. He's li… ▶344HopeHumanityLife
Donald MillerI think the things we want most in life, the things we think will set us free, are not the thing we need. ✨ Donald Miller (2012). Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Ch… ▶344LifeThought
Donald MillerIf we are not willing to wake up in the morning and die to ourselves, perhaps we should ask ourselves whether or not we are really following Jesus. ✨ Donald Miller (2012). B… ▶333DeathThought
Donald MillerSome people skip through life. Others are dragged through it. I sometimes wonder if we are moving through time, or whether time is moving through us. Light, unlike anything else i… ▶355HumanityLifeTime
Donald MillerWe live in a world where bad stories are told, stories that teach us life doesn't mean anything and that humanity has no great purpose. It's a good calling, then, to speak a bette… ▶333HopeHumanityLife
Donald MillerSometimes the story we're telling the world isn't half as endearing as the one that lives inside us. ✨ Donald Miller (2015). Scary Close: Dropping the Act and Finding True I… ▶378TimeTruth
Donald MillerIt is when people do not allow God to show up through them ... that the world collapses in on itself. ✨ Donald Miller (2009). A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Lea… ▶367HumanityLife
Donald MillerBook of Ecclesiastes, God is saying... Write a good story, take somebody with you and let me help345Reading
Donald MillerThe truth is there are a million steps, and we don't even know what the steps are, and worse, at any given moment we may not be willing or even able to take them; and still worse,… ▶356HopeLifeLove
Donald MillerOf his new book, Don says: “It might be the greatest book ever written. I don’t think anybody is going to read a book again after they read my new one. I think God is proud of me.… ▶323ReadingThought
Donald MillerThere are things you cannot understand, and you must learn to live with this. Not only must you learn to live with this, you must learn to enjoy this. ✨ Donald Miller (2007)… ▶334Sadness
