People who live great stories know failure isn’t a judgment, it’s an education. Donald Miller More Quotes by Donald Miller More Quotes From Donald Miller And through a dark night of the soul, I came to realize that salvation happens through a mysterious, indefinable, relational interaction with Jesus in which we become one with Him. I realized Christian conversion worked more like falling in love than understanding a series of concepts of ideas. This is not to say there are no true ideas, it is only to say there is something else, something beyond. Donald Miller falling-in-love christian jesus It's funny how you can't ask difficult questions in a familiar place, how you have to stand back a few feet and see things in a new way before you realize nothing that is happening to you is normal. The trouble with you and me is we are used to what is happening to us. We grew into our lives like a kernel beneath the earth, never able to process the enigma of our composition...Nothing is normal. It is all rather odd, isn't it, our eyes in our heads, our hands with five fingers, the capacity to understand beauty, to feel love, to feel pain. Donald Miller pain eye feet By accepting God's love for us, we fall in love with Him, and only then do we have the fuel we need to obey. Donald Miller accepting-god falling-in-love needs And I found Jesus very disturbing, very straightforward. He wasn't diplomatic, and yet I felt like if I met Him, He would really like me. Don, I can't explain how freeing that was, to realize that if I met Jesus, He would like me. I never felt like that about some of the Christians on the radio. I always thought if I met those people they would yell at me. But it wasn't like that with Jesus. Donald Miller christian people jesus We believe we will be made whole by our accomplishments, our possessions, or our social status. It's written in the fabric of our DNA that life used to be beautiful and now it isn't, and if only this and only that, it would be beautiful again. Donald Miller dna beautiful believe 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 trends belief believe I know, from the three visits I made to him, the blended composite of love and fear that exists only in a boy's notion of his father. Donald Miller fear boys father It was a haunting feeling, the sort of sensation you get when you wonder whether you are two people, the other of which does things you can't explain, bad and terrible things. Donald Miller feelings two people I can't do it. It would be like, say, trying to fall in love with somebody, or trying to convince yourself that your favorite food is pancakes. You don't decide those things, they just happen to you. If God is real, He needs to happen to me. Donald Miller falling-in-love real trying When you live on your own for a long time, however, your personality changes because you go so much into yourself you lose the ability to be social, to understand what is and isn't normal behavior. There is an entire world inside yourself, and if you let yourself, you can get so deep inside it you will forget the way to the surface. Other people keep our souls alive, just like food and water does with our body. Donald Miller water long people He thought about the story his daughter was living and the role she was playing inside that story. He realized he hadn't provided a better role for his daughter. He hadn't mapped out a story for his family. And so his daughter had chosen another story, a story in which she was wanted, even if she was only being used. In the absence of a family story, she'd chosen a story in which there was risk and adventure, rebellion and independence. Donald Miller parenting daughter adventure *I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago... *So soon you will be in that part of the book where you are holding the bulk of the pages in your left hand, and only a thin wisp of the story in your right. *We get one story, you and I, and one story alone....It might be time for you to go. It might be time to change, to shine out. Donald Miller walking-away book hands The inciting incident is how you get (characters) to do something. It's the doorway through which they can't return, you know. The story takes care of the rest. Donald Miller care stories character the times we worked harder to make the day stand out. our story demanded that we change and so we did. Donald Miller harder standing-out stories As a human, I am flawed in that it is difficult for me to consider others before myself. It feels like I have to fight against this force, this current within me that, more often than not, wants to avoid serious issues and please myself, buy things for myself, feed myself, entertain myself, and all of that. Donald Miller issues fighting want I think the things we want most in life, the things we think will set us free, are not the thing we need. Donald Miller want needs thinking Sometimes the things we want most in life are the things that will kill us. Donald Miller want sometimes When a relationship is right, it is no more possible to wake up and want out of the marriage than it is to wake up and stop believing in God. What is, is what is. Donald Miller wake-up want believe The thing about new things is you feel new when you buy them, you feel as though you are somebody different because you own something different. We are our possessions, you know. There are people who get addicted to buying new stuff. Things. Piles and piles of things. But the new things become old things so quickly. We need new things to replace the old things. Donald Miller old-things different people A story is a character who wants something and overcomes conflict to get it. Donald Miller want-something overcoming character
