Donald Miller Quotes

Satan, who I believe exists as much as I believe Jesus exists, wants us to believe meaningless things for meaningless reasons.

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.

Outside of God's perspective, even romance loses its significance. Not in riches or in romance do we find fulfillment, but in God.

What was more frustrating than the loss of exhilaration was the return of my struggles with sin. I had become a Christian, so why did I still struggle with lust, greed, and envy? Why did I want to get drunk at parties or cheat on tests?

Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself. It is as if they are showing you the way.

This is a James Taylor moment and we are stuck with a piano player who wants to sound like Enya and a southern funk band that, somewhere along the line, fell into thinking Alabama is a sweet place to call home.

I had the image of a spiritual person, but I was bowing down to the idols of religiosity and philosophy.

All great characters in stories are the ones who give their lives to something bigger than themselves. And in all of the stories I don't find anyone more noble than Jesus.

It does not escape me that I am blessed to be included in this tale of a billion human conflicts and singular resolution.

When everybody thinks you are nuts you finally just give in to their pressure and actually go nuts.

Life is, without a doubt, complex and confusing. My faith is my sanity. There are people who choose to live on the surface of things. I have yet to find the surface. And with all the beauty in the underneath, I am not certain I want to live on the surface should I find it. I stopped looking a long time ago.

I think it is interesting that God designed people to need other people. We see those cigarette advertisements with the rugged cowboy riding around alone on a horse, and we think that is strength, when, really, it is like setting your soul down on a couch and not exercising it. The soul needs to interact with other people to be healthy.

Life is too complicated to use analogies to describe it.

The more I ponder God's way, the more I believe He changes a person, or molds a person through enlightenment. He changes a person's mind.

I feel like I am constantly saying things I don't mean. I tell people they should share their faith, but I don't feel like sharing my faith. I tell people that should be in the Word, but I am only in the Word because I have to teach the Word. I said to a guy the other day, 'God bless you.' What does that mean? I have been saying that stuff all my life, but what does it mean? Then I started thinking about all the crap I say. All the clichés, all the parroted slogans. I have become an infomercial for God, and I don't even use the product.