Donald Miller Quotes

I don't mean any disrespect. I truly don't. But Texas isn't nature. Texas is city and smog and humidity and heat.

If you believe something, passionately, people will follow you because they think you know something they don't, some clue to the meaning of the universe. Passion is tricky, though, because it can point to nothing just as easily as it points to something

I have come to understand that strength, inner strength, comes from receiving love as much as it comes from giving it...God's love will never change us if we don't accept it.

Could we, with human reason, process the finality of death, we would be very different souls, giving more than we take, forgiving easily, and listening with all that is in us for the answers to questions we would not have otherwise asked.

I hear addicts talk about the shakes and panic attacks and the highs and lows of resisting their habit, and to some degree I understand them because I have had habits of my own, but no drug is so powerful as the drug of self. No rut in the mind is so deep as the one that says I am the world, the world belongs to me, all people are characters in my play. There is no addiction so powerful as self addiction.

Here's what I've started thinking: All the wonder of God happens right above our arithmetic and formula. The more I climb outside my pat answers, the more invigorating the view, the more my heart enters into worship.

But I think that God does not so much take us from point A to point B in the physical world as He takes us from not knowing Him to knowing Him.

I think every well-adjusted human being has dealt squarely with his or her own depravity.

Too much chicken soup for the soul is not a good thing. Working men eat meat and potatoes.

Cupid is fat and slow and can't hit moving targets.

It gives me great confidence and pride to think that, had the Israelites been influenced by German engineering, Paul and Timothy might have journeyed in an old Volkswagen camping van.

The uncomfortable moments in a person's life make great stories down the road.

Some people skip through life; some people are dragged through it. I sometimes wonder whether we are moving through time or time is moving through us.

And that's when I realized that believing in God is as much like falling in love as it is like making a decision. Love is both something that happens to you and something you decide upon.

In America, the first generation out of slavery invented jazz music. It is a free-form expression. It comes from the soul and it is true.