Rosie

“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.”
― Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

“And I found Jesus very disturbing, very straightforward. He wasn't diplomatic, and yet I felt like if I met Him, He would really like me. Don, I can't explain how freeing that was, to realize that if I met Jesus, He would like me. I never felt like that about some of the Christians on the radio. I always thought if I met those people they would yell at me. But it wasn't like that with Jesus.”
― Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

“It is no coincidence that Jesus talks endlessly about love. Free love. Unconditional love.”
― Donald Miller, Searching for God Knows What

“More than my questions about the efficacy of social actions were my questions about my own motives. Do i want social justice for the oppressed or do i jusy want to be known as a socially active person? I spend 95 percent of my time thinking about myself anyway. I dont have to watch the evening news to see the world is bad, i only have to look at myself. I am not brow beating here, i am only saying that true charge , true living giving, God honoring change would have to start with the individual. I was the very problem i had been protesting. I wanted to make a sign that read “I am the problem”
― Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality