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Donald Miller
“And so my prayer is that your story will have involved some leaving and some coming home, some summer and some winter, some roses blooming out like children in a play. My hope is your story will be about changing, about getting something beautiful born inside of you about learning to love a woman or a man, about learning to love a child, about moving yourself around water, around mountains, around friends, about learning to love others more than we love ourselves, about learning oneness as a way of understanding God. We get one story, you and I, and one story alone. God has established the elements, the setting and the climax and the resolution. It would be a crime not to venture out, wouldn't it?

It might be time for you to go. It might be time to change, to shine out.

I want to repeat one word for you:
Leave.

Roll the word around on your tongue for a bit. It is a beautiful word, isn't it? So strong and forceful, the way you have always wanted to be. And you will not be alone. You have never been alone. Don't worry. Everything will still be here when you get back. It is you who will have changed.”
Donald Miller, Through Painted Deserts: Light, God, and Beauty on the Open Road

Donald Miller
“Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself. It is as if they are showing you the way.”
Donald Miller

Donald Miller
“I asked God to help me understand the story of the forest and what it means to be a tree in that story.”
Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
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Donald Miller
“And once you live a good story, you get a taste for a kind of meaning in life, and you can't go back to being normal; you can't go back to meaningless scenes stitched together by the forgettable thread of wasted time.”
Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

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“Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.”
Francis Chan, Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

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