At the time, I didn't know what forgiveness meant. I wouldn't really know what forgiveness meant for another year, until my pastor, Rick McKinley, happened to spell it out in a sermon. He said that when you forgive, you bear the burden somebody has given you without holding them accountable.
Donald MillerI know, from the three visits I made to him, the blended composite of love and fear that exists only in a boy's notion of his father.
Donald MillerThe most attractive characteristic in a person is the story they are telling the world. We stop and stare at stories.
Donald Miller...if I do not introduce people to Jesus, then I don't believe Jesus is an important person. It doesn't matter what I say.
Donald MillerIt's funny how you can't ask difficult questions in a familiar place, how you have to stand back a few feet and see things in a new way before you realize nothing that is happening to you is normal. The trouble with you and me is we are used to what is happening to us. We grew into our lives like a kernel beneath the earth, never able to process the enigma of our composition...Nothing is normal. It is all rather odd, isn't it, our eyes in our heads, our hands with five fingers, the capacity to understand beauty, to feel love, to feel pain.
Donald Miller