J. Keith Miller > Quotes

“We may feel angry because they don’t guess who we are or what we want from them, because “if they really loved us,” of course, they would be able to guess.”
― J. Keith Miller, A Hunger for Healing: The Twelve Steps as a Classic Model for Christian Spiritual Growth

“When we use something—from a vacation, to buying new clothes, to tranquilizers—to blot out the pain of life, we block out the joy as well. We are therefore often numb people, who have plenty of everything but can’t feel the love for and from those people with whom God has given us to live.”
― J. Keith Miller, A Hunger for Healing: The Twelve Steps as a Classic Model for Christian Spiritual Growth

“Because I was a Christian I knew there was a Higher Power. For me, his name was Jesus Christ. But I had never fully faced the nature of my inability to overcome my own Sin and had no idea that recognition of my powerlessness was the doorway to spiritual growth and a whole new relationship with God.”
― J. Keith Miller, A Hunger for Healing: The Twelve Steps as a Classic Model for Christian Spiritual Growth

“For instance, until the pain in my life and relationships became very intense, I could not face my denial about being an almost totally self-centered controller.”
― J. Keith Miller, Compelled to Control: Recovering Intimacy in Broken Relationships