Robert Tate Miller > Quotes

“When you're cast in darkness, there's only one way to go—and that's toward the light.”
― Robert Tate Miller, The Christmas Star: A Love Story

“Son, love never comes easy. It often comes saddled with challenges and setbacks and impossible dilemmas. Love makes us struggle and fight and decide . . . decide if we want it enough to take on the struggle.”
― Robert Tate Miller, The Christmas Star: A Love Story

“Love’s like water rushing down a river . . . . Boulders and rocks might change its course, but it’s still going down river.”
― Robert Tate Miller, The Christmas Star: A Love Story

“Love. The idea seemed too grand to be encapsulated by a mere four letters—a concept altogether ethereal and transcendental, something that should be reserved for those more discerning and experienced. It scared me and thrilled me, but mostly, it made me feel light and invincible. It was as if all the moments and feelings and thoughts of my entire life were preambles to that magnificent revelation. I loved and was loved in return, and all the doubts and ambiguity I’d had about the existence of God vanished. God had to exist for something as extraordinary as love to exist. He just had to.”
― Robert Tate Miller, The Christmas Star: A Love Story

“Regrets can choke the life out of a marriage like nothing else.”
― Robert Tate Miller, The Christmas Star: A Love Story

“The thing is . . . what most people don’t get . . . when you let go, you can’t do it partway. You’ve got to pry off every finger. Surrender. Raise the white flag. Throw in the towel. Give up all preconceived notions as to how things might work out. And that’s when God moves in. Not my will, but thine, be done. Not my will, but thine.”
― Robert Tate Miller, The Christmas Star: A Love Story

“Because God loved me, I could never really be incarcerated. Knowing that was my freedom. There I was in my cell all alone in the middle of the night, and I was having this experience—a spiritual transformation. I realized that, as God's child, I was already free, that I could be free in my heart and soul and mind, even if my body was locked in an iron cage.”
― Robert Tate Miller, The Christmas Star: A Love Story