Donald Miller
Donald Miller
Donald "Don" Milleris a best-selling American author and public speaker based in Nashville, Tennessee who focuses on Christian spirituality as "an explanation for beauty, meaning, and the human struggle"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth12 August 1971
CountryUnited States of America
Donald Miller quotes about
england far north snow
The significant snow didn't get as far north into New England as anticipated.
fund funding help kick money problem unless
I have a real problem with (solely funding the program) unless the townships kick in some money to help fund it,
bands million music
There is something more than music here, and only one in a million bands can get to this place,
breakfast pancakes made
I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me
voice rushing feet
Imagine, a Being with a mind as great as God's, with feet like trees and a voice like rushing wind, telling you that you are His cherished creation.
falling-in-love believe love-is
Believing in God is as much like falling in love as it is making a decision. Love is both something that happens to you and something you decide upon.
ants wanted make-sense
...she wanted God to make sense. He doesn't. He will make no more sense to me than I will make sense to an ant.
things-in-life being-free needs
We don't need as much as we have. Hardly any of us need as much money as we have. It's true what they say about the best things in life being free.
worship glory artwork
All this beauty exists so you and I can see His glory, His artwork. It's like an invitation to worship Him, to know Him.
skeptic
You never question the truth of something until you have to explain it to a skeptic.
falling-in-love bridges rivers
No, life cannot be understood flat on a page. It has to be lived; a person has to get out of his head, has to fall in love, has to memorize poems, has to jump off bridges into rivers, has to stand in an empty desert and whisper sonnets under his breath... We get one story, you and I, and one story alone. God has established the elements, the setting and the climax and resolution. It would be a crime not to venture out, wouldn't it?" -Donald Miller,Through Painted Deserts
temptation suffering might
I am human because God made me. I experience suffering and temptation because mankind chose to follow Satan. God is reaching out to me to rescue me. I am learning to trust Him, learning to live by His precepts that I might be preserved.
listening stories life-story
I often learn more about myself from listening to the life story of a friend than I do reflecting on my own story.
who-we-are certain supposed-to-be
Relationships unlock certain parts of who we are supposed to be.