What Iโm saying is I think life is staggering and weโre just used to it. We all are like spoiled children no longer impressed with the gifts weโre givenโitโs just another sunset, just another rainstorm moving in over the mountain, just another child being born, just another funeral.
Donald MillerI took William Zinsser's advice that you write to yourself and you hope that there are people out there who are like you.
Donald MillerMy Sunday school teachers had turned Bible narrative into children's fables. They talked about Noah and the ark because the story had animals in it. They failed to mention that this was when God massacred all of humanity.
Donald MillerI never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when I saw a man playing the saxophone. I stood there for fifteen minutes, and he never opened his eyes. After that I liked jazz music. Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself. It is as if they are showing you the way. I used to not like God because God didn't resolve. But that was before any of this happened.
Donald Miller