I am too old to think. Keith Miller More Quotes by Keith Miller More Quotes From Keith Miller I'll tell you what pressure is. Pressure is a Messerschmitt up your arse. Playing cricket is not. Keith Miller arses cricket pressure The way to love someone is to lightly run your finger over that person's soul until you find a crack, and then gently pour your love into that crack. Keith Miller soul running love A Christian marriage is [not] one with no problems or even a marriage with fewer problems. (It may well mean more problems.) But it does mean a life in which two people are able to accept each other and love each other in the midst of problems and fears. It means a marriage in which selfish people can accept selfish people without constantly trying to change them -- and even accept themselves, because they realize personally that they have been accepted by Christ. Keith Miller selfish christian mean I am deeply a part of the problem for which Christ died. Keith Miller died problem christ Memories must enter the bloodstream, must churn awhile through the heart's mill, must be crushed and polished, be nearly forgotten or cling like burs to other stories before they spill forth in purple patterns, shapes of small bones and worm rot, shapes of clouds and the spaces between leaves. Keith Miller clouds heart memories I wrote a book called The Taste of New Wine because I couldn't find a book that talked about the reality of the situation and how we were dishonest and afraid. Keith Miller wine book reality I am discovering that in trying to find God's will and the shape of the Christian life I have begun an adventure so great that its total completion will always be ahead. Keith Miller christian trying adventure I learned that the purpose of the Twelve Steps is to do the will of God. Keith Miller twelve purpose steps Prayer no longer seems like an activity to me; it has become the continuing language of the relationship I believe God designed to fulfill a human life. Keith Miller language prayer believe But keep characters in propinquity long enough and a story will always develop a plot. Keith Miller plot character long I remember when I was a little boy my father didn't love me; he couldn't. He loved my older brother but he couldn't love me somehow, at least not in a way I could understand it. Keith Miller brother boys father All I have to tell you about is what I have heard and seen of Jesus, how He is helping me find freedom, to occasionally love other people, and even accept myself with all my mixed motives. Keith Miller helping people jesus The problem is that this speeded-up life and stress in America causes us to cut off our feelings, so we are out of touch with our reality. Keith Miller cutting stress reality I have learned to like myself for the first time and to have some serenity. Keith Miller serenity quiet firsts My only hope to receive love is to let you see who I am, then I may believe you. Keith Miller who-i-am love-is believe A lot of us have jobs where we need to give people structure but that is different from controlling. Keith Miller jobs giving people The primary symptom of a controller is denial, that is I can't see its symptoms in myself. Keith Miller controllers symptoms denial I was taught that pain is bad. Keith Miller taught pain Intimacy, as I am using it, is sharing my reality with you. Keith Miller intimacy reality Beneath all of these addictions is this disease, this control disease which is the mark of our society. Keith Miller addiction our-society disease
