Quotes from Donald Miller

One of the things I associate with God is a sunrise. How many sunrises have you missed over the years, and God created that?

Book of Ecclesiastes, God is saying... Write a good story, take somebody with you and let me help.

Without the Christian explanation of original sin, the seemingly silly story of Adam and Eve and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, there was no explanation of conflict. At all.

If you have a beautiful story, it has to have conflict. If you don't have conflict, it can't be a good story.

It confuses me that Christian living is not simpler. The gospel, the very good news, is simple.

If you aren't telling a good story, nobody thinks you died too soon; they just think you died.

Job found contentment and even joy, outside the context of comfort, health or stability. He understood the story was not about him, and he cared more about the story then he did about himself.

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

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.

Without a positive male role model in your life it is extremely difficult to become a man who benefits his family and benefits society.

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 he never opened his eyes. After that I liked jazz music. Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself. It is as if they are showing you the way. I used to not like God because God didn't resolve. But that was before any of this happened.

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