American - Author | August 12, 1971 -
If you have a beautiful story, it has to have conflict. If you don't have conflict, it can't be a good story.
Donald Miller
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I think understanding your life as a story is a really terrific way of kind of knowing where you are and knowing who you are.
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One of the things I associate with God is a sunrise. How many sunrises have you missed over the years, and God created that?
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Sunday morning church service is not an enormous priority; spending time with other believers is.
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Meaning is something we experience more than we attain. It's like finding a nice, easy current in a river that carries you through life.
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Christians might say that you can't live a more meaningful life without Jesus. Well, that's absolutely not true. You can. You can enjoy a sunrise whether you know Jesus or not.
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I think, in the grand epic, Jesus is the hero of our stories. And our stories, as they were, are subplots in a grand epic and our job is not to be the hero of any story. Our job is to be a saint in a story that he is telling.
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People are lonely. They want company and your book can provide them company and a little bit of hope. And there's nothing wrong with that.
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Life is a story. You and I are telling stories; they may suck, but we are telling stories. And we tell stories about the things that we want. So you go through your bank account, and those are things you have told stories about.
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One of the things I love about our source text as Christians, the Bible, is that it teaches us not to avoid conflict. And it teaches us that before the fall of man, in Paradise, there was conflict. God wants conflict to be a part of your life.
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Every human being is searching for a deep sense of meaning, and yet we're all chasing success. We've confused one for the other.
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I started 'Storyline' after I'd accomplished all my goals and still wasn't happy. I'd become a 'New York Times' bestselling author, which was my goal from high school, and yet I was less happy after accomplishing my goals than I was before.
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