Quotes and Snippets

- … loneliness in my own life doesn’t mean I am a complete screw-up, rather God made me this way.
    ~ Donald Miller, Searching For God Knows What

- It made me wonder, honestly, if such complex existence as the one you are living can really be broken down into a few steps.
    ~ Donald Miller, Searching For God Knows What

- Reality is like a fine wine.  It will not appeal to children.
    ~ Donald Miller, Searching For God Knows What

- The times in my life when I have been the most happy haven’t been the times when I’ve had the most money or the most freedom or the most anything, but rather when I’ve been in love or in community or right with people.
    ~ Donald Miller, Searching For God Knows What

- And poetry is a literary tool that has the power to give a person the feeling that he isn’t alone in those emotions, that, though there are no words to describe them, somebody understands.
    ~ Donald Miller, Searching For God Knows What

- … ideas have to sink very deeply into a person’s soul, into their being, before the can effect change…
    ~ Donald Miller, Searching For God Knows What

- It is a rare person who loses himself in the presence of other human beings.
    ~ Donald Miller, Searching For God Knows What

- Jesus built our faith system entirely on relationships.
    ~ Donald Miller, Searching For God Knows What

- It is a powerful occurrence to have somebody look you in the eye and say you are worth something.
    ~ Donald Miller, Searching For God Knows What

- The greatest desire of man is to be known and loved anyway.
    ~ Donald Miller, Searching For God Knows What

- “we understand each other,” another went on to say.  “We have a community, a group of people who, because of their own deformities, accept the deformity in others.  We are the lucky ones, because we understand that people are only people, that thing you think makes you better that us is an illusion.”
     ~ Donald Miller, Searching For God Knows What

- Love creates rules, and forgives when they are broken.
     ~ Donald Miller, Searching For God Knows What

- When I think of myself as a sheep, looking up at Jesus, who has a staff to rescue me and a rod to comfort me, it makes me feel that this passage (Ps. 23) is quite endearing, that basically I am a simple sheep, having very little idea of what is right and wrong, and Jesus is going to pull me out of the ditches when I screw up, and protect me from spiritual enemies who, roam about like lions.
    ~ Donald Miller, Searching For God Knows What

- The tough thing about Christian Spirituality is, you have to mean things. You can’t just go through the motions or act religious for the wrongs reasons.
    ~ Donald Miller, Searching For God Knows What
 
- Let’s say you had a friend like Omar who was wondering, and you no longer believed the gospel could be presented accurately using a step-by-step guide with all the beauty of blender instructions, what would you say?
    ~ Donald Miller, Searching For God Knows What

- Everybody, every person, has to leave, has to change like seasons; they have to or they die.
     ~ Donald Miller, Through Painted Deserts

- Everybody has to change, or they expire.
    ~ Donald Miller, Through Painted Deserts

- Everybody has to leave, everybody has to leave their home and come back so they can love it again for all new reasons.
    ~ Donald Miller, Through Painted Deserts

- We are shaped by our experiences.  Our perception of joy, fear, pain, and beauty are sharpened or dulled by the way we rub against time.
    ~ Donald Miller, Through Painted Deserts

- I told her of the need to travel, to gain memories, and to be, for a while, completely free.
    ~ Donald Miller, Through Painted Deserts

- I think joy into its coffin; I analyze too much.  I don’t want to think about life anymore; I just want to live life.
    ~ Donald Miller, Through Painted Deserts

- Trouble leads to question and question leads to prayer.  It’s funny how I usually don’t care about faith until life falls apart, until I find myself in the middle of some kind of jam.
    ~ Donald Miller, Through Painted Deserts

- When with certain people, one is confronted with the notion that life may be much easier than the rest of us believe it is, that most of the things we worry about are not worth worrying about.
    ~ Donald Miller, Through Painted Deserts

- People assume when you’re swimming in a river you are supposed to know which way you are going, and I guess some of the time that is true, but there are certain currents that are very strong, and it’s when we are in those currents we need somebody to come along, pull us out, and guide us in a safer direction.
    ~ Donald Miller, To Own a Dragon

- I was kind of amazed at how much of my time I had spent wandering around, not really knowing what I was doing or where I was going, only wanting random things in a random universe.  I don’t know how many months, how many years I spent sitting and watching television, complaining to myself about how boring life was.
    ~ Donald Miller, To Own a Dragon