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• To be in a relationship with God is to be loved purely and furiously. And a person who thinks himself unlovable cannot be in a relationship with God because he can't accept who God is; a Being that is love. We learn that we are lovable or unlovable from other people. That is why God tells us so many times to love each other.

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  Thinking, People, Who God Is

  "Blue Like Jazz". Book by Donald Miller, 2003.

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• The truth is there are a million steps, and we don't even know what the steps are, and worse, at any given moment we may not be willing or even able to take them; and still worse, they are different for you and they are always changing. I have come to believe the sooner we will fall in love with the God who keeps shaking things up, keeps changing the path, keeps rocking the boat to test our faith in Him, teaching us to not rely on easy answers, bullet points, magic mantras, or genies in lamps, but rather in His guidance, His existence, His mercy, and His love.

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  Falling In Love, Teaching, Believe

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• Relationships unlock certain parts of who we are supposed to be.

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  Who We Are, Certain, Supposed To Be

  Donald Miller (2010). “Father Fiction: Chapters for a Fatherless Generation”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• In the age of information, ignorance is a choice.

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  Ignorance, Choices, Age

  "Truth in Pop Art: An Interview with Donny Miller". Interview with Wheeler Winston Dixon, filmint.nu. March 5, 2013.

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• Every day you live is a page. Every year, a chapter. Your life, a book. What is it about?

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  Book, Years, Pages

  Twitter post from Aug 07, 2015

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• Nobody will listen to you unless they sense that you like them.

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  Donald Miller (2012). “Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality”, p.220, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• 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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  Giving Up, Hard Work, Want

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• We don't think much about how our love stories will affect the world, but they do. Children learn what's worth living for and what's worth dying for by the stories they watch us live. I want to teach our children how to get scary close, and more, how to be brave. I want to teach them that love is worth what it costs.

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  Children, Love Is, Thinking

  Donald Miller (2015). “Scary Close: Dropping the Act and Finding True Intimacy”, p.226, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Flattery has a short battery life, but reminding people they are amazing and precious and wanted and works of art can truly change their lives.

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  Art, People, Batteries

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

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  Watches, Sometimes

  Donald Miller (2012). “Blue Like Jazz: Movie Edition: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality”, p.7, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• 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.

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  Lying, Reality, Breathing

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• I loved the fact that it wasn't my responsibility to change somebody, that it was God's, that my part was just to communicate love and approval.

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  Responsibility, Facts, Approval

  Donald Miller (2012). “Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality”, p.221, Thomas Nelson Inc

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

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  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

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• The more I try to impress people, the more I separate myself from them. Vulnerability attracts love.

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  People, Trying, Impress

  FaceBook post by Donald Miller from Mar 15, 2012

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• When something happens to you, you have two choices in how to deal with it. You can either get bitter, or get better.

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  Two, Choices, Get Better

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• Fear isn’t only a guide to keep us safe; it’s also a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life … the great stories go to those who don’t give in to fear.

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  Giving, Stories, Safe

  Donald Miller (2009). “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life”, p.108, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me

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  Breakfast, Pancakes, Made

  Donald Miller (2007). “Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God”, p.117, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• A story is based on what people think is important, so when we live a story, we are telling people around us what we think is important.

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  Thinking, People, Important

  Donald Miller (2009). “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life”, p.125, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• God made a whole beautiful earth and decided to put you in it, to experience all of this beauty. You can't do that watching television all the time.

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  Beautiful, Television, Earth

  Donald Miller (2005). “Through Painted Deserts: Light, God, and Beauty on the Open Road”, p.127, Harper Collins

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• No love is conditional. If love is conditional, it’s just some sort of manipulation masquerading as love.

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  Love Is, Manipulation, Conditional

  Donald Miller (2015). “Scary Close: Dropping the Act and Finding True Intimacy”, p.44, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I heard once that real love doesn't ask what is in it for me; it just gives unconditionally. It just tries to take the weight out of somebody else's pack, lessen his load, and if it gets reciprocated, that's great, but that isn't what you did it for.

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  Real, Giving, Trying

  Donald Miller (2007). “Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God”, p.312, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Too much of our time is spent trying to chart God on a grid, and too little is spent allowing our hearts to feel awe. By reducing Christian spirituality to formula, we deprive our hearts of wonder.

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  Christian, Heart, Trying

  Donald Miller (2007). “Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God”, p.119, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• If you want to bond with your friends, do something very hard with them, something that you won't be able to do alone.

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  Want, Able, Hard

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• It’s interesting that in the Bible, in the book of Ecclesiastes, the only practical advice given about living a meaningful life is to find a job you like, enjoy your marriage, and obey God. It’s as though God is saying, Write a good story, take somebody with you, and let me help.

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  Meaningful, Jobs, Book

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• What we really need is somebody who loves us so much we don’t worry about death, or about [anything for that matter]… We need this; we need this so we can love other people purely and not for selfish gain, we need this so we can see everybody as equals, we need this so our relationships can be sincere, we need this so we can stop kicking ourselves around, we need this so we can lose all self-awareness and find ourselves for the first time, not by realizing some dream, but by being told who we are by the only Being who has the authority to know, by that I mean the Creator.

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  Dream, Selfish, Mean

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