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Donald Miller, born on August 12, 1971, is a renowned American author. His works delve into themes of life, faith, and growth in an accessible way, resonating with a wide audience.

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“I didnt like being reminded about how self-absorbed i was. I wanted to be over this, done with this. I didnt want to live in a broken world or a broken me. I wasnt trying to weasel out of anything. I just wasnt in the mood of being on the earth that night. I get like that sometimes when it rains, or when i see certain sad movies.”

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Book:Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

Source: Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

“I think writers can get a little melodramatic sometimes about their work, and it helps me not to do that, to just say, "Well, this is how I make a living, and I need to become a very good craftsman."”

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“When you write, you're alone in a room. And when someone reads a book, they're alone in a room, too, usually. It's a really intimate exchange. And so people ask me where I get the boldness to talk about this or that, but I didn't feel like it required any sort of courage, because I was alone. Sometimes it feels weird for people to read it.”

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Author:Donald Miller

“Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself.”

Sometimes Watches

Book:Blue Like Jazz: Movie Edition: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

Source: Blue Like Jazz: Movie Edition: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

“Moral #1: "If you work hard, stay focused, and never give up, you will eventually get what you want in life." Moral #2: Sometimes the things we want most in life are the things that will kill us.”

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Author:Donald Miller

“I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when I saw a man playing the saxophone. I stood there for fifteen minutes, and he never opened his eyes. After that I liked jazz music. Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself. It is as if they are showing you the way. I used to not like God because God didn't resolve. But that was before any of this happened.”

Source: Blue Like Jazz: Movie Edition: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

“Sometimes when I watch my dog, I think about how good life can be, if we only lose ourselves in our stories. Lucy doesn't read self-help books about how to be a dog; she just IS a dog. All she wants to do is chase ducks and sticks and do other things that make both her and me happy. It makes me wonder if that was the intention for man, to chase sticks and ducks, to name animals, to create families, and to keep looking back at God to feed off his pleasure at our pleasure.”

“I have sometimes wondered if the greatest desire of man is to be known and loved anyway.”

Ifs Men Sometimes Desire Known Being Famous

Book:Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God

Source: Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God

“Sometimes the things we want most in life are the things that will kill us.”

Want Sometimes

Book:Blue Like Jazz: Movie Edition: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

Source: Blue Like Jazz: Movie Edition: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

“I know our culture will sometimes understand a love for Jesus as weakness. There is this lie floating around that says I am supposed to be able to do life alone, without any help, without stopping to worship something bigger than myself. But I actually believe there is something bigger than me, and I need for there to be something bigger than me. I need someone to put awe inside me; I need to come second to someone who has everything figured out.”

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Book:Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God

Source: Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God

“Some people skip through life. Others are dragged through it. I sometimes wonder if we are moving through time, or whether time is moving through us. Light, unlike anything else in the universe is not effected by time. Light exists outside of time.. It is still a mystery to physicists.”

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Author:Donald Miller

“Sometimes I wish I could go back in time, sit down with myself and explain that things were going to be okay, that everybody loses ground sometimes and it doesn’t mean anything. It’s the way life works. This is hard to understand in the moment. You get to thinking about the girl who rejected you, the job you got fired from, the test you failed, and you lose sight of the big picture — the fact that life has a beautiful way of remaking itself every few weeks.”

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Author:Donald Miller

“Sometimes the story we're telling the world isn't half as endearing as the one that lives inside us.”

World Sometimes Stories Half Endearing

Book:Scary Close: Dropping the Act and Finding True Intimacy

Source: Scary Close: Dropping the Act and Finding True Intimacy