If you work hard, stay focused, and never give up, you will eventually get what you want in life.
Donald MillerI am human because God made me. I experience suffering and temptation because mankind chose to follow Satan. God is reaching out to me to rescue me. I am learning to trust Him, learning to live by His precepts that I might be preserved.
Donald MillerSometimes the things we want most in life are the things that will kill us.
Donald MillerTag: desires
When a relationship is right, it is no more possible to wake up and want out of the marriage than it is to wake up and stop believing in God. What is, is what is.
Donald MillerThe thing about new things is you feel new when you buy them, you feel as though you are somebody different because you own something different. We are our possessions, you know. There are people who get addicted to buying new stuff. Things. Piles and piles of things. But the new things become old things so quickly. We need new things to replace the old things.
Donald MillerWe don't need as much as we have. Hardly any of us need as much money as we have. It's true what they say about the best things in life being free.
Donald MillerOf all the principles I'd learn about story, the idea that a character is what he does remains the hardest to actually live.
Donald MillerA story is a character who wants something and overcomes conflict to get it.
Donald MillerHumans are designed to seek comfort and order, and so if they have comfort and order, they tend to plant themselves, even if their comfort isn't all that comfortable. And even if they secretly want for something better.
Donald MillerI've wondered, though, if one of the reasons we fail to acknowledge the brilliance of life is because we don't want the responsibility inherent in the acknowledgment. We don't want to be characters in a story because characters have to move and breathe and face conflict with courage. And if life isn't remarkable, then we don't have to do any of that; we can be unwilling victims instead of grateful participants.
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