Donald Miller Quotes

I believe in holiness and sacredness in other people. It doesn't mean that the clouds part and I see God. That's a juvenile way of thinking about it.

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.

Faith is spiritualized imagination.

The word spiritual, not the word religious, is the key.

Faith is a passionate intuition.

I was raised Catholic, and I knew of Him and certainly what He did, but I never truly experienced knowing Him.

I have a story that will make you believe in God.

Being a Christian is more like falling in love than understanding a series of ideas.

Real prayer comes not from gritting our teeth but from falling in love.

Faith is certitude without proofs ... Faith is a sentiment, for it is a hope; it is an instinct, for it precedes all outward instruction.

Religion doesn't start with a set of laws or rules and it doesn't start with a set of ideas. It starts with an encounter, with the living God and in our case, Christ risen from the dead. In that encounter you meet someone you can trust. That's faith: trust in truth.

I got religion in the airport, my Lord. They caught me waiting on my baggage when I was bored.

If you can really make a man believe you love him, you have won him; and if I could only make people really believe that God loves them, what a rush we would see for the kingdom of God!

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.

If you're so afraid of your imagination that you stifle it, how are you going to know God? How can you imagine heaven?

A mission is a place where you ask nonbelievers to come and find faith and hope and feel love.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

Faith is easy; I think people complicate it.

I still marvel at how God turns dreams into reality.

I am not embarrassed to tell you that I believe in miracles.

I am not a spiritual guy, but all of a sudden I felt the need to really feel things.

I just have faith. It's just there. It's not any big deal.

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

When you live with the Devil you learn there's a God very quickly.

I had this idea that the coolest thing that could happen to you was talking with God. My father was always talking about God, and I idolized my father, so I'd spend hours trying to have mental telepathy with God.