Even our beliefs have become trend statements. We don’t even believe things because we believe them anymore. We only believe things because they are cool things to believe. Donald Miller More Quotes by Donald Miller More Quotes From Donald Miller The ambitions we have will become the stories we live. Donald Miller ambition stories I'm the kind of person who wants to present my most honest, authentic self to the world, so I hide backstage and rehearse honest and authentic lines until the curtain opens. Donald Miller lines self world People want to join a great story. If you want to lead, tell one with your life. Donald Miller stories want people It 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. Donald Miller want people ideas I think writers would do better to consider that idea [to write to yourself], because you know yourself really well, and you never know your demographic fully. You only get into trouble if you try to please somebody you don't really understand. Donald Miller writing ideas thinking We have to have positive male role models. Donald Miller males role-models roles Good writers show rather than tell. Stories are told in action. Life stories are no different. Donald Miller different stories action Let probability and sample size do the heavy lifting. Donald Miller size sample heavy When we think too much about the opinions of others, we are letting them edit a book God has written. Donald Miller too-much book thinking To change the world you'll need a pen. Donald Miller changing-the-world world needs When we do what God wants us to do, we are blessed, we are spiritually healthy. Donald Miller healthy blessed want Grace only sticks to our imperfections. Those who can’t accept their imperfections can’t accept grace either. Donald Miller imperfection sticks grace True intimacy, the exchange of affection between two people who are not lying, is transforming. Donald Miller two lying people We don't know how much we are capable of loving until the people we love are being taken away, until a beautiful story is ending. Donald Miller taken beautiful people It is hard for us to admit we have a sin nature because we live in this system of checks and balances. If we get caught, we will be punished. But that doesn't make us good people; it only makes us subdued. Just think about the Congress and Senate and even the president. The genius of the American system is not freedom; the genius of the American system is checks and balances. Nobody gets all the power. Everybody is watching everybody else. It is as if the founding fathers knew, intrinsically, that the soul of man, unwatched, is perverse. Donald Miller men father thinking There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very authentically looking for truth. Donald Miller reeds conservative college It is worthy of note that the Chinese and Japanese characters for money and gold are the same. Donald Miller chinese gold character I had always suspected language was quite limited in its ability to communicate the intricate mysteries of truth. Donald Miller ability-to-communicate mystery language I didnt like being reminded about how self-absorbed i was. I wanted to be over this, done with this. I didnt want to live in a broken world or a broken me. I wasnt trying to weasel out of anything. I just wasnt in the mood of being on the earth that night. I get like that sometimes when it rains, or when i see certain sad movies. Donald Miller self rain night Most great art is freedom within form. Without form, we are amateurs, without freedom, we are robots. Donald Miller robots form art
