Quotes from Donald Miller

Christians might say that you can't live a more meaningful life without Jesus. Well, that's absolutely not true. You can. You can enjoy a sunrise whether you know Jesus or not.

I think it's very hard for us, for Christians, to understand that it's okay to read a book, for instance, on how to manage your time. There's nothing wrong with that.

Half the time I don't know what I'm trying to say.

Half the time I pick up a book, that's what I'm trying to get.

Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself.

Every human being is searching for a deep sense of meaning, and yet we're all chasing success. We've confused one for the other.

Sunday morning church service is not an enormous priority spending time with other believers is.

I loved the fact that it wasn't my responsibility to change somebody, that it was God's, that my part was just to communicate love and approval.

We don't think of our flaws as the glue that binds us to the people we love, but they are. Grace only sticks to your imperfections.

Lets choose to do something really difficult, something that saves lives, and let's do that thing with people we love.

It is no coincidence that Jesus talks endlessly about love. Free love. Unconditional love.

Self-discipline will never make us feel righteous or clean; accepting God's love will.

I love writing books - I really do. If I could just quit everything and work on a book every day, I would love that most.

No love is conditional. If love is conditional, it's just some sort of manipulation masquerading as love.

Everybody has to leave, everybody has to leave their home and come back so they can love it again for all new reasons.

All the trees are losing their leaves, and not one of them is worried.

Truth grew in my mind like a fungus, and though I tried to sleep it out, there was no resisting the epiphanies.

Being a Christian is more like falling in love than understanding a series of ideas.

And when you find love, or when you are mature enough to understand it, the feeling you get is gratitude.

The truth is, if what we choose to do with our lives won't make a story meaningful, it won't make a life meaningful either.

Telling the truth is the slow, mundane, difficult route to a meaningful life. Anything else is cheating.

There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very authentically looking for truth.

I had always suspected language was quite limited in its ability to communicate the intricate mysteries of truth.

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.