Quotes about Community
I believed if word got out about grace, the whole church was going to turn into a brothel.
— Donald Miller
God made me, He knows me, He understands me, and He wants community.
— Donald Miller
People want to be involved in a story that is larger than themselves.
— 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
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
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
A person could read the Bible, not to become smart, but rather to feel that they are not alone, that somebody understands them and love them enough to speak to them, on purpose, in a way that makes a person feel human.
— Donald Miller
If loving other people is a bit of heaven then certainly isolation is a bit of hell, and to that degree, here on earth, we decide in which state we would like to live.
— Donald Miller
What if the story of our lives is less about what we build and more about who we build up?
— Donald Miller
Most Christians have enormous respect for the space and freedom of others, it is only that they have found a joy in Jesus they want to share. There is the tension.
— Donald Miller
the ideas and experiences we exchange with others grow into us like vines and reveal themselves in our mannerisms and language and outlook on life. If you want to make a sad person happy, start by planting them in a community of optimists.
— Donald Miller