If what you are doing is important, you will encounter resistance. If what you are doing isn't important it will be easy. Donald Miller More Quotes by Donald Miller More Quotes From Donald Miller Some 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 in the universe is not effected by time. Light exists outside of time.. It is still a mystery to physicists. Donald Miller light people moving I think that every living person, every person who is awake to the functioning principles within his reality has a moment where he stops blaming the problems in the world on group thinking, on humanity and authority, and starts to face himself. I hate this more than anything. This is the hardest principle within christian spirituality for me to deal with. The problem is not out there, the problem is the needy beast of a thing living in my chest. Donald Miller hate christian reality More 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 socially active person? I spend 95 percent of my time thinking about myself anyway. I dont have to watch the evening news to see the world is bad, i only have to look at myself. I am not brow beating here, i am only saying that true charge , true living giving, God honoring change would have to start with the individual. I was the very problem i had been protesting. I wanted to make a sign that read “I am the problem Donald Miller here-i-am giving thinking The heart responds to the conflict within a story. Donald Miller conflict stories heart The thing I loved about her was that I never felt like she was selling anything. She would talk to God as if she knew Him, as if she had talked to Him on the phone that day. She was never ashamed which is the thing with some Christians I had encountered. Donald Miller selling phones christian Nothing is going to change in congo until you and i figure out what is wrong with the person inside the mirror Donald Miller congo figures mirrors Today I wonder why it is God refers to Himself as 'Father' at all. This, to me, in light of the earthly representation of the role, seems a marketing mistake. Donald Miller light mistake father Sometimes the story we're telling the world isn't half as endearing as the one that lives inside us. Donald Miller half stories world My 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 this was when God massacred all of humanity. Donald Miller teacher children school I stay away from churches in which I feel like I have to pretend I'm a better person than I am. That sort of thing moves my faith backwards. Donald Miller better-person church moving Nobody will listen to you unless they sense that you like them. Donald Miller If I use the Bible to prove I am right, I have yet to be humbled by the beautiful truths of the Bible. Donald Miller prove use beautiful The 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, they are different for you and they are always changing. I have come to believe the sooner we will fall in love with the God who keeps shaking things up, keeps changing the path, keeps rocking the boat to test our faith in Him, teaching us to not rely on easy answers, bullet points, magic mantras, or genies in lamps, but rather in His guidance, His existence, His mercy, and His love. Donald Miller falling-in-love teaching believe Sometimes when I watch my dog, I think about how good life can be, if we only lose ourselves in our stories. Lucy doesn't read self-help books about how to be a dog; she just IS a dog. All she wants to do is chase ducks and sticks and do other things that make both her and me happy. It makes me wonder if that was the intention for man, to chase sticks and ducks, to name animals, to create families, and to keep looking back at God to feed off his pleasure at our pleasure. Donald Miller good-life dog book I'm amazed at how much my writing is improved when I step away from the computer, even in small amounts. If I'm stuck, I vacuum the living room or walk the dog. I'm amazed at what comes out of that... We have to realize that part of the writing life where we're sitting down at the computer is harvesting the crops, but you have to have planted them and watered them and created fertile soil - and that's a life. Donald Miller sitting dog writing It comforts me to think that if we are created beings, the thing that created us would have to be greater than us, so much greater, in fact, that we would not be able to understand it. It would have to be greater than the facts of our reality, and so it would seem to us, looking out from within our reality that it would contradict reason. But reason itself would suggest it would have to be greater than reality, or it would not be reasonable. Donald Miller comfort reality thinking Christ, in short, asks us to give everything, all our false redemption in the lifeboat, all our false ideas about who God is, all our trust in something other than God to redeem us. In so doing, we die to our broken natures in exchange for His perfect nature, and find unification with Him that will allow God to see us as one. Donald Miller broken giving ideas Truth grew in my mind like a fungus, and though I tried to sleep it out, there was no resisting the epiphanies. Donald Miller epiphany mind sleep How many people have damaged their own lives by mistaking enablement for grace? Donald Miller live-by grace people We don't naturally want to take responsibility for our lives. We want to give the responsibility to someone else. We blame them when our lives aren't good. Donald Miller responsibility want giving
