Quotes about Connection
When writing their one-liners, many people fail to connect the problem, solution, and result. For instance: Many families struggle to spend time together, but at Acorn Family Camp, we solve the problem of boring summers so families create memories that last.
— Donald Miller
If you haven't done it in a while, pray and talk to Jesus. Ask Him to become real to you. Ask Him to forgive you of self-addiction, ask Him to put a song in your heart. I can't think of anything better that could happen to you than this.
— Donald Miller
The same is true in social relationships. Commitment in a relationship takes time.
— Donald Miller
By writing about the community we will create or join, and by listing the ways we will appreciate nature and art, we are reminding ourselves, over and over, that life is not about us. It's about sharing our human experience with other people.
— Donald Miller
I knew he wouldn't die, because his life was like the roots of a tree that went miles into the soil and miles around its trunk and came up in my cousins, in their faces and their voices and their character. I didn't think you could kill a tree that big. Not even God could kill a tree that big.
— Donald Miller
Unless we identify something our customer wants, they will never feel invited into the story we are telling.
— Donald Miller
Jesus does not want us floating through space or sitting in front of our televisions. Jesus wants us interacting, eating together, laughing together, praying together. Loneliness is something that came with the fall.
— Donald Miller
A Sales Funnel Controls the Pace of the Relationship In a relationship, you talk about things on a fourth or fifth date you might never talk about on a first date.
— Donald Miller
Article that said in the next five years we will become a conglomerate of the people we hang out with. The article went so far as to say relationships were a greater predictor of who we will become than exercise, diet, or media consumption.
— Donald Miller
Those who realize the epic story of life is not about them but actually about the people around them somehow win in the end.
— Donald Miller
We think stories are about getting money and security, but the truth is, it all comes down to relationships.
— Donald Miller
It's the crossing of that distance that makes the story work.
— Donald Miller