Donald Miller Quotes

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

And if these mountains had eyes, they would wake to find two strangers in their fences, standing in admiration as a breathing red pours its tinge upon earth's shore. These mountains, which have seen u...

What if part of God's message to the world was you, the true and real you?

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...

Meaning is something we experience more than we attain. It's like finding a nice, easy current in a river that carries you through life.

When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.

I think that's why so many couples fight, because they want their partners to validate them and affirm them, and if they don't get that, they feel as though they're going to die. And so they lash out....

I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me

A person could read the Bible, not to become smart, but rather to feel that they are not alone, that somebody understands them and love them enough to speak to them, on purpose, in a way that makes a...

I always thought the Bible was more of a salad thing, you know, but it isn't. It's a chocolate thing.

For a long time, I thought I was good at relationships because I was charming.

I once listened to an Indian on television say that God was in the wind and the water, and I wondered at how beautiful that was because it meant you could swim in Him or have Him brush your face in a...

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

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

I want my spirituality to rid me of hate, not give me reason for it.

The downside of being a writer is you get plenty of time to overthink your life.

And so my prayer is that your story will have involved some leaving and some coming home, some summer and some winter, some roses blooming out like children in a play. My hope is your story will be ab...

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.

It occurs to me it is not so much the aim of the devil to lure me with evil as it is to preoccupy me with the meaningless.

I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when I saw a man playing the saxophone. I stood there for fifteen minutes, and h...