Quotes from Donald Miller

It costs personal fear to be authentic but the reward is integrity, and by that I mean a soul fully integrated, no difference between his act and his actual person.

Some people skip through life; some people are dragged through it.

Life isn't memorable enough to remember everything. It's not like there are explosions all the time, or dog smoking cigarettes.

But love doesn't control, and I suppose that's why it's the ultimate risk.

I know what life is about, but what if I don't like it?

asking forgiveness involves giving power to the person you're seeking forgiveness from.

In business, if we don't communicate clearly, we shrink.

All this gave way to my first encounter with guilt, which is still something entirely inscrutable to me, as if aliens were sending transmissions from another planet, telling me there is a right and a wrong in the universe.

The repentance we are called to is about choosing one audience over another.

The goal for our branding should be that every potential customer knows exactly where we want to take them:

Create reciprocity. I've never worried about giving away too much free information. In fact, the more generous a brand is, the more reciprocity they create. All relationships are give-and-take, and the more you give to your customers, the more likely they will be to give something back in the future. Give freely.

In church, the rules of the lifeboat don't apply. Church is the refuge where the Kingdom of God is emulated, not mocked.

if we live behind a mask we can impress but we can't connect.

At the curiosity stage we are really only making two large piles: keep and discard.

Jason decided to stop yelling at his daughter and, instead, created a better story to invite her into.

but the reality is people want to work for more than just money. They want to work to build and sustain a community they love. As we shared our personal dreams with each other, my work was no longer about me reaching my goals, it was about me contributing to a team in which we'd all tied our dreams together.

I will love you like God, because of God, mighted by the power of God. I will stop expecting your love, demanding your love, trading for your love, gaming for your love. I will simply love.

I am willing to sound dumb. I am willing to be wrong. I am willing to be passionate about something that isn't perceived as cool.

I DON'T KNOW WHY LOVING A WOMAN IS SCARIER than climbing a mountain or sailing an ocean, but it is. A mountain can hurt your body and an ocean can drown you, but in the end you're still a man for conquering them. Dead or alive, you're still a man. A woman, though, can rob your manhood and reduce you to a boy at the drop of a word.

I kept asking Him to say it again, but He wouldn't. I guess it's because I heard Him the first time, you know.

Your Customers Are Not Curious About You, They Are Curious About How You Can Solve Their Problem

The principle that characters do not want to change applies to more than just fiction.

it's important to note that not all of the seven elements should be used evenly in your communication. Think of the StoryBrand Framework as a recipe for a loaf of bread. Failure is like salt: use too much and you'll ruin the flavor; leave it out and the recipe will taste bland. Regardless, the point is this: your story needs stakes.

He said jazz music was invented by the first generation out of slavery. I thought that was beautiful because, while it is music, it is very hard to put on paper; it is so much more a language of the soul. It is as if the soul is saying something, something about freedom.