If our identity gets broken, it affects our ability to connect. And I wonder if we’re not all a lot better for each other than we previously thought. I know we’re not perfect, but I wonder how many people are withholding the love they could provide because they secretly believe they have fatal flaws.

— Donald Miller

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The whole experience makes me wonder if the time we spend trying to become somebody people will love isn’t wasted because the most powerful, most attractive person we can be is who we already are, an ever-changing being that is becoming and will never arrive, but has opinions about what is seen along the journey.

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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.

— Donald Miller

I believed if word got out about grace, the whole church was going to turn into a brothel.

— Donald Miller

After a tragedy, I think God gives us a period of numbing as a kind of grace. Perhaps he knows our small minds, given so easily to false hope, couldn’t handle the full brunt of reality.

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Just out of high school, you didn’t realize you were creating drama for the sake of drama.

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It costs personal fear to be authentic but the reward is integrity, and by that I mean a soul fully integrated, no difference between his act and his actual person.

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Look, you guys are running around like monkeys trying to get people to clap, but people are fallen, they are separated from God, so they have no idea what is good or bad, worthy to be judged or set free, beautiful or ugly to begin with. Why not get your glory from God? Why not accept your feelings of redemption because of His pleasure in you, not the fickle and empty favor of man? And only then will you know who you are.

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For so much of my life I had been defending Christianity because I thought to admit that we had done any wrong was to discredit the religious system as a whole, but it isn’t a religious system, it is people following Christ; and the important thing to do, the right thing to do, was to apologize for getting in the way of Jesus.

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But love doesn’t control, and I suppose that’s why it’s the ultimate risk.

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I know what life is about, but what if I don’t like it?

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Create reciprocity. I’ve never worried about giving away too much free information. In fact, the more generous a brand is, the more reciprocity they create. All relationships are give-and-take, and the more you give to your customers, the more likely they will be to give something back in the future. Give freely.

— Donald Miller

At the curiosity stage we are really only making two large piles: keep and discard.

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I am willing to sound dumb. I am willing to be wrong. I am willing to be passionate about something that isn’t perceived as cool.

— Donald Miller

Your Customers Are Not Curious About You, They Are Curious About How You Can Solve Their Problem.

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Customers are not interested in your story. They are, rather, interested in being invited into a story that has them surviving and winning in the end.

— Donald Miller

There is no conflict man can endure that will not produce a blessing. And I smiled. I’m not saying I was happy, but for some reason I smiled. It hurts now, but I’ll love this memory, I thought to myself. And I do.

— Donald Miller

Alfred Hitchcock defined a good story as “life with the dull parts taken out.

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A character is what he does.

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Having integrity is about being the same person on the inside that we are on the outside, and if we don’t have integrity, life becomes exhausting. I wonder how many people get tempted by the gains they can make by playing a role, only to pay for those temptations in public isolation.

— Donald Miller

She only knows what he says and what he does, not what he thinks and what he feels.

— Donald Miller
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