Quotes from Donald Miller

Most of us are waiting. We're waiting for something interesting to happen. And I think we're going to wait forever if we don't do something more interesting with our lives.

The sexual conquest is huge with men in terms of affirming themselves and their feelings of masculinity. That's a misguided kind of affirmation. That is not helpful, but that stuff happens.

In exchange for our humility and willingness to accept the charity of God, we are given a kingdom. And a beggar's kingdom is better than a proud man's delusion.

If we are not willing to wake up in the morning and die to ourselves, perhaps we should ask ourselves whether or not we are really following Jesus.

I am something of a recluse by nature. I am that cordless screwdriver that has to charge for twenty hours to earn ten minutes use. I need that much downtime.

We have to have positive male role models.

If we knew how much God loved us and was for us, we'd talk to Him all day long.

There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing.

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.

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.

God made a whole beautiful earth and decided to put you in it, to experience all of this beauty. You can't do that watching television all the time.

It is when people do not allow God to show up through them ... that the world collapses in on itself.

...I should have people around bugging me and getting under my skin because without people I could not grow - I could not grow in God, and I could not grow as a human.

The very scary thing about religion, to me, is that people actually believe God is who they think He is.

...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.

Instead of asking what it feels like to follow God or be used by God, we should be asking who God is, and whether we really know Him. Everything else will take care of itself.

God doesn't give us crying, pooping children because he wants to advance our careers.

When we think too much about the opinions of others, we are letting them edit a book God has written.

One of the things I associate with God is a sunrise. How many sunrises have you missed over the years, and God created that?

You can't tell a good story without conflict - the story can't be beautiful or meaningful. We're taught to run from conflict, and it's robbing us of some really good stories.

Book of Ecclesiastes, God is saying... Write a good story, take somebody with you and let me help

Without the Christian explanation of original sin, the seemingly silly story of Adam and Eve and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, there was no explanation of conflict. At all.

If you have a beautiful story, it has to have conflict. If you don't have conflict, it can't be a good story.

It confuses me that Christian living is not simpler. The gospel, the very good news, is simple.