Donald Miller Quotes About Lying

Quotes about: Lying

• The most difficult lie I have ever contended with is this: life is a story about me.

  Donald Miller

  Lying, Stories, Life Is

  Donald Miller (2007). “Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God”, p.108, Thomas Nelson Inc

• At the end of the day, when I am lying in bed and I know the chances of any of our theology being exactly right are a million to one, I need to know that God has things figured out, that if my math is wrong we are still going to be okay. And wonder is that feeling we get when we let go of our silly answers, our mapped out rules that we want God to follow. I don't think there is any better worship than wonder.

  Donald Miller

  Letting Go, Lying, Silly

• 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.

  Donald Miller

  Jesus, Lying, Believe

  Donald Miller (2007). “Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God”, p.134, Thomas Nelson Inc

• In an age in which we can project an image and score that image based on immediate Facebook and Twitter feedback, thus making a video game of life and a false-reality composed of lies, what gets lost is a joyful obsession with the work we create from the purest of motives, a sheer joy in the act of creation itself that causes us to lose ourselves in something else, and in a way die to ourselves over the absolute love of a thing we are breathing into life.

  Donald Miller

  Lying, Reality, Breathing

• True intimacy, the exchange of affection between two people who are not lying, is transforming.

  Donald Miller

  Lying, Two, People

  Donald Miller (2015). “Scary Close: Dropping the Act and Finding True Intimacy”, p.152, Thomas Nelson Inc

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