Quotes from Donald Miller

Every day you live is a page. Every year, a chapter. Your life, a book. What is it about?

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.

His prescription to experience a deep sense of meaning, then, was remarkably pragmatic. He had three recommendations: 1. Have a project to work on, some reason to get out of bed in the morning and preferably something that serves other people. 2. Have a redemptive perspective on life's challenges. That is, when something difficult happens, recognize the ways that difficulty also serves you. 3. Share your life with a person or people who love you unconditionally.

He wasn't just calling them into a life of sacrifice. He was calling them into a life of meaning, even the kind of meaning that would involve suffering. Suffering for a redemptive reason is hardly suffering, after all.

Brands that give customers a voice in a larger narrative add value to their products by giving their customers a deeper sense of meaning.

Now that you've established the first three sections as a positive, negative, and then positive movement in the story, your customers are likely hooked.

If I do not introduce people to Jesus, then I don't believe Jesus is an important person. It doesn't matter what I say.

You get a feeling when you look back on life that that's all God really wants from us, to live inside a body he made and enjoy the story and bond with us through the experience.

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

Paul was terribly personal. The books I like are the ones that make you feel like you are with a person who is being quite vulnerable, telling you all sorts of stuff that is personal, and that's the thing Paul did that makes me like him.

For a moment sitting there above the city, i imagined life outside of narcissism. I wondered how beautiful it might be to think of others as more important than myself. I wondered how peaceful it might be not to be pestered by that childish voice that wants for pleasure and attention. I wondered how it would be like not to live in a house of mirrors, everywhere i go being reminded of myself.

Finally, when I finished rambling, he said, "Don, all relationships are teleological." I asked him what the word teleological meant. "It means they're going somewhere," Al said. "All relationships are living and alive and moving and becoming something.