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
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The significant snow didn't get as far north into New England as anticipated.
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I have a real problem with (solely funding the program) unless the townships kick in some money to help fund it,
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...sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself...
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Mexicans are educating themselves and becoming serious consumers of wine, and sommeliers in Mexico City are starting to take notice.
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There is something more than music here, and only one in a million bands can get to this place,
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I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me
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The most often repeated commandment in the Bible is 'Do not fear.' It's in there over two hundred times. That means a couple of things, if you think about it. It means we are going to be afraid, and it means we shouldn't let fear boss us around. Before I realized we were supposed to fight fear, I thought of fear as a subtle suggestion in our subconscious designed to keep us safe, or more important, keep us from getting humiliated. And I guess it serves that purpose. But fear isn't only a guide to keep us safe; it's also a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life.
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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.
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How disappointing would it be get to heaven and find out God created life to be enjoyed while all we did was worry?
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And once you live a good story, you get a taste for a kind of meaning in life, and you can't go back to being normal; you can't go back to meaningless scenes stitched together by the forgettable thread of wasted time.
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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.
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The heart responds to the conflict within a story.
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The human body essentially recreates itself every six months. Nearly every cell of hair and skin and bone dies and another is directed to its former place. You are not who you were last November.
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...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.