Top 380 Donald Miller Quotes (2023 Update)
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351. “Jason decided to stop yelling at his daughter and, instead, created a better story to invite her into.”

— Donald Miller

352. “I knew then, this relationship would have to be different. I knew I’d have to know myself and be known. These weren’t only terrifying prospects, they were foreign. I didn’t know how to do either. And the stakes were high. I was going to have to either learn to be healthy or I’d spend the rest of my life pretending. It was either intimacy or public isolation.”

— Donald Miller

353. “I don’t believe we are accidents in the world, and I don’t believe we were supposed to be actors either. I think we were supposed to be ourselves and we were meant as a miracle.”

— Donald Miller

354. “I listened so hard because it felt like, while she was telling me stories, she was massaging my soul, letting me know that I was not alone, that I will never have to be alone, that there are friends and family and churches and coffee shops. I was not going to be cast into space.”

— Donald Miller

355. “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.”

— Donald Miller

356. “The whole experience makes me wonder if the time we spend trying to become somebody people will love isn’t wasted because the most powerful, most attractive person we can be is who we already are, an ever-changing being that is becoming and will never arrive, but has opinions about what is seen along the journey.”

— Donald Miller

357. “The problem is not out there; the problem is the needy beast of a thing that lives in my chest.”

— Donald Miller

358. “I realized that for years I’d thought of love as something that would complete me, make all my troubles go away. I worshipped at the altar of romantic completion. And it had cost me, plenty of times. ANd it had cost me most of the girls I’d dated, too, because I wanted them to be something they weren’t. It’s too much pressure to put on a person.”

— Donald Miller

359. “But true intimacy is just like that: it’s the food you grow from well-tilled ground. And like most things good for us, it’s an acquired taste.”

— Donald Miller

360. “Your problem is not that God is not fulfilling, your problem is that you are spoiled.”

— Donald Miller

361. “He said, “Don, when something hard happens to you, you have two choices in how to deal with it. You can either get bitter, or better. I chose to get better. It’s made all the difference.”

— Donald Miller

362. “I wonder if what might help couples build great families is to pick a place for their family to go and then hit the gas, to work toward their vision and build it out.”

— Donald Miller

363. “This message God was communicating to mankind, this Gospel of Jesus, was a message to the heart as much as to the head, that the methodology was as important as the message itself, that the message could not be presented accurately outside of the emotions within which these truths were embedded.”

— Donald Miller

364. “It’s true our lives can pass small and unnoticed by the masses, and we are no less dignified for having lived quietly. In fact, I’ve come to believe there’s something noble about doing little with your life save offering love to a person who is offering it back.”

— Donald Miller

365. “At the end of the day, when I am lying in bed and I know the chances of any of our theology being exactly right are a million to one, I need to know that God has things figured out, that if my math is wrong we are still going to be okay. And wonder is that feeling we get when we let go of our silly answers, our mapped out rules that we want God to follow. I don’t think there is any better worship than wonder.”

— Donald Miller

366. “There’s truth in the idea we’re never going to be perfect in love but we can get close. And the closer we get, the healthier we will be. Love is not a game any of us can win, it’s just a story we can live and enjoy.”

— Donald Miller

367. “I only say this because a positive evolution happened in my life when I realized healthy relationships happen best between healthy people.”

— Donald Miller

368. “But love doesn’t control, and I suppose that’s why it’s the ultimate risk.”

— Donald Miller

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

— Donald Miller

370. “One of the best ways we can illustrate how we help our customers transform is through customer testimonials.”

— Donald Miller

371. “When a person has no other persons he invents them because he was not designed to be alone, because it isn’t good for a person to be alone.”

— Donald Miller

372. “There is no conflict man can endure that will not produce a blessing. And I smiled. I’m not saying I was happy, but for some reason I smiled. It hurts now, but I’ll love this memory, I thought to myself. And I do.”

— Donald Miller

373. “He said before they had the twins he thought of himself as a provider and protector, as somebody who was responsible to protect the physical world around the people he loved. But after having kids he realized that was 10 percent of the battle. What he really had to protect was the twins’ identity. He said there was a primal thing in him that wanted to stand between his children and the world and fight back all the lies.”

— Donald Miller

374. “I don’t have to watch the evening news to see that the world is bad, I only have to look at myself.”

— Donald Miller

375. “What good does it do to tell somebody to live morally so they can die 50 years later and apparently go to Hell?”

— Donald Miller

376. “Look, you guys are running around like monkeys trying to get people to clap, but people are fallen, they are separated from God, so they have no idea what is good or bad, worthy to be judged or set free, beautiful or ugly to begin with. Why not get your glory from God? Why not accept your feelings of redemption because of His pleasure in you, not the fickle and empty favor of man? And only then will you know who you are.”

— Donald Miller

377. “You’d think God would come right out and tell us what to do in the Bible, but He doesn’t. He mostly tells stories, and He rarely stops the story to say what the point is. He just lets the characters and conflict hang in the air like smoke.”

— Donald Miller

378. “It’s one thing to impress people, but it’s another to love them.”

— Donald Miller

379. “I didn’t want to need his affirmation. But part of our selves is spirit, and our spirits are thirsty, and my father’s words went into my spirit like water.”

— Donald Miller

380. “It’s encouraging to watch what people will do to contribute to a love story. It’s as though we universally recognize the union of souls is worth sacrificing for.”

— Donald Miller

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

— Donald Miller

382. “What’s the most important thing you can do today? If you can answer that question, morning after morning, you are in an elite group of professionals.”

— Donald Miller

383. “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.”

— Donald Miller