Top 380 Donald Miller Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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.”

— Donald Miller

52. “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.”

— Donald Miller

53. “The early bird catches the worm. But I have never been one for worms. I am not sure what the late bird catches but I will feast with him today. Probably porridge.”

— Donald Miller

54. “We don’t know how much we are capable of loving until the people we love are being taken away, until a beautiful story is ending.”

— Donald Miller

55. “Sunday morning church service is not an enormous priority; spending time with other believers is.”

— Donald Miller

56. “He said to me I was a tree in a story about a forest, and that it was arrogant of me to believe any differently. And he told me the story of the forest is better than the story of the tree.”

— Donald Miller

57. “I think our society puts too much pressure on romantic love, and that is why so many romances fail. Romance can’t possibly carry all that we want it to.”

— Donald Miller

58. “I asked God to help me understand the story of the forest and what it means to be a tree in that story.”

— Donald Miller

59. “It is always the simple things that change our lives. And these things never happen when you are looking for them to happen. Life will reveal answers at the pace life wishes to do so. You feel like running, but life is on a stroll. This is how God does things.”

— Donald Miller

60. “I’m just trying to make the point that the story we’re telling ourselves is often very different from the story we’re telling the people around us.”

— Donald Miller

61. “Let’s show up to life. Let’s prove how beautiful it can really be. Let’s face the conflict, redeem it, conquer it, and allow it to mold our character. Let’s participate in what God is doing in the world.”

— Donald Miller

62. “I often learn more about myself from listening to the life story of a friend than I do reflecting on my own story.”

— Donald Miller

63. “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.”

— Donald Miller

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

— Donald Miller

65. “For me, the beginning of sharing my faith with people began by throwing out Christianity and embracing Christian spirituality, a nonpolitical mysterious system that can be experienced but not explained.”

— Donald Miller

66. “I think, in the grand epic, Jesus is the hero of our stories. And our stories, as they were, are subplots in a grand epic and our job is not to be the hero of any story. Our job is to be a saint in a story that he is telling.”

— Donald Miller

67. “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.”

— Donald Miller

68. “I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago, because a mind was made fo figure things out, not to read the same page recurrently.”

— Donald Miller

69. “I think understanding your life as a story is a really terrific way of kind of knowing where you are and knowing who you are.”

— Donald Miller

70. “Passion about nothing is like pouring gasoline in a car without wheels. It isn’t going to lead anybody anywhere.”

— Donald Miller

71. “There are things you cannot understand, and you must learn to live with this. Not only must you learn to live with this, you must learn to enjoy this.”

— Donald Miller

72. “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.”

— Donald Miller

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

— Donald Miller

74. “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.”

— Donald Miller

75. “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.”

— Donald Miller

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

— Donald Miller

77. “Let probability and sample size do the heavy lifting.”

— Donald Miller

78. “You cannot be a Christian without being a mystic.”

— Donald Miller

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

— Donald Miller

80. “It wasn’t necessary to win for the story to be great, it was only necessary to sacrifice everything.”

— Donald Miller

81. “How disappointing would it be get to heaven and find out God created life to be enjoyed while all we did was worry?”

— Donald Miller

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

— Donald Miller

83. “I need for there to be something bigger than me. I need someone to put awe inside me; I need to come second to someone who has everything figured out.”

— Donald Miller

84. “Humans are designed to seek comfort and order, and so if they have comfort and order, they tend to plant themselves, even if their comfort isn’t all that comfortable. And even if they secretly want for something better.”

— Donald Miller

85. “I’m the kind of person who wants to present my most honest, authentic self to the world, so I hide backstage and rehearse honest and authentic lines until the curtain opens.”

— Donald Miller

86. “I took William Zinsser’s advice that you write to yourself and you hope that there are people out there who are like you.”

— Donald Miller

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

— Donald Miller

88. “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.”

— Donald Miller

89. “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 breeze.”

— Donald Miller

90. “Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself. It is as if they are showing you the way.”

— Donald Miller

91. “All this beauty exists so you and I can see His glory, His artwork. It’s like an invitation to worship Him, to know Him.”

— Donald Miller

92. “I stay away from churches in which I feel like I have to pretend I’m a better person than I am. That sort of thing moves my faith backwards.”

— Donald Miller

93. “How many people have damaged their own lives by mistaking enablement for grace?”

— Donald Miller

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

— Donald Miller

95. “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.”

— Donald Miller

96. “I am human because God made me. I experience suffering and temptation because mankind chose to follow Satan. God is reaching out to me to rescue me. I am learning to trust Him, learning to live by His precepts that I might be preserved.”

— Donald Miller

97. “I don’t read a lot of inspirational books for life. But for writing, I think the two best books are The War of Art and William Zinsser’s On Writing Well. I read a lot of classics;.”

— Donald Miller

98. “If you have a beautiful story, it has to have conflict. If you don’t have conflict, it can’t be a good story.”

— Donald Miller

99. “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.”

— Donald Miller

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

— Donald Miller