Quotes from Donald Miller

There's a genius part of you that wants to create. That part of you wants to talk to God. Get out of the way.

It made me wonder if the reasons our lives seem so muddled is because we keep walking into scenes in which we, along with the people around us, have no clear idea what we want.

People want to join a great story. If you want to lead, tell one with your life.

I love to give to charity, but I don't want to be charity. This is why I have so much trouble with grace.

When a relationship is right, it is no more possible to wake up and want out of the marriage than it is to wake up and stop believing in God. What is, is what is.

When we do what God wants us to do, we are blessed, we are spiritually healthy.

People are lonely. They want company and your book can provide them company and a little bit of hope. And there's nothing wrong with that.

The problem is this: those of us who are never satisfied with our accomplishments secretly believe nobody will love us unless we're perfect.

The reason I like writing a memoir is because it isn't preachy.

There are two types of men in this world--one is looking for a woman to make his life complete and the other is looking for a woman to join his complete life.

I'm not a pastor; I've never been on staff at a church.

When I was in love there was somebody in the world who was more important than me, and that, given all that happened at the fall of man, is a miracle, like something God forgot to curse.

...a beggar's kingdom is better than a proud man's delusion.

People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen.

Our lives have a countdown clock that we can't see. Mine reminds me to only do work that matters.

I started 'Storyline' after I'd accomplished all my goals and still wasn't happy. I'd become a 'New York Times' bestselling author, which was my goal from high school, and yet I was less happy after accomplishing my goals than I was before.

Moral #1: "If you work hard, stay focused, and never give up, you will eventually get what you want in life." Moral #2: Sometimes the things we want most in life are the things that will kill us.

I think writers can get a little melodramatic sometimes about their work, and it helps me not to do that, to just say, "Well, this is how I make a living, and I need to become a very good craftsman."

We don't naturally want to take responsibility for our lives. We want to give the responsibility to someone else. We blame them when our lives aren't good.

Most great art is freedom within form. Without form, we are amateurs, without freedom, we are robots.

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.

When you live on your own for a long time, however, your personality changes because you go so much into yourself you lose the ability to be social, to understand what is and isn't normal behavior. There is an entire world inside yourself, and if you let yourself, you can get so deep inside it you will forget the way to the surface. Other people keep our souls alive, just like food and water does with our body.

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

You never question the truth of something until you have to explain it to a skeptic.