Quotes from Donald Miller

After you have listed the top five excuses, craft a sentence or two that overcomes each objection.

In the churches I used to go to, I felt like I didn't fit in... I was accepted but not understood. There was room at the table for me, but I was not part of the family.

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

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. Relationships have a way of stabilizing when in motion. Until then, they just feel like a road trip to nowhere.

After all, the purpose of negative stakes in a story is to contrast with the happy ending we all want to experience.

What I'm saying is I think life is staggering and we're just used to it. We all are like spoiled children no longer impressed with the gifts we're given—it's just another sunset, just another rainstorm moving in over the mountain, just another child being born.

Empathetic statements start with words like, "We understand how it feels to..." or "Nobody should have to experience..." or "Like you, we are frustrated by..." or, in the case of one Toyota commercial inviting Toyota owners to engage their local Toyota service center, simply, "We care about your Toyota".

I liked the idea of loving people just to love them, not to get them to come to church.

God risked himself on me. I will risk myself on you.

If we haven't identified what our customer wants, what problem we are helping them solve, and what life will look like after they engage our products and services, for example, we can forget about thriving in the marketplace.

Heroes need to be challenged by outside forces.

As long as you're willing to turn the other cheek with the mean ones, vulnerability can get you a wealth of friends.