Donald Miller Quotes

But chance runs like a river through all our lives, and being prepared for surprise is the best we can do.

When I went through my divorce, I decided that I was going to pray this time for someone. Then, God sent me someone. I prayed for the specific qualities I wanted in a man, and I wasn't going to settle for anything less.

Things always evolve and change on location, especially due to the nature of travel and the waves. A lot of unexpected things happen. Often we get lucky, but we also find ourselves scrambling a lot, especially when we are looking for waves in the remote spots of those locations.

Everything happening around me is very random. I am enjoying the phase, as the journey is far more enjoyable than the destination.

I've always tried to control everything and every aspect of my life, and this is maybe the biggest lesson I've learnt with motherhood - you just can't control everything, and I'm much more relaxed now about unexpected changes and things that happen.

I'm crazy about surprises. I love chance.

You cannot plan what is going to happen. You cannot plan your life.

A life of anybody is not perfect; there is always things that happen, and that is what makes it interesting.

I'm a firm believer in the saying that goes, 'If you want to make god laugh, tell him your plans,' kind of approach.

Be patient - if something is supposed to happen, it's going to happen. Whenever I've tried to force things, they didn't go right.

And I have to be willing to be patient to allow God's plan to unfold and not go ahead and try to make my own circumstances happen for me. So, I've learned that He can be trusted for every need and desire but at the same time that may require patience on my end.

The element of the unexpected and the unforeseeable is what gives some of its relish to life and saves us from falling into the mechanical thralldom of the logicians.

People will complain that they don't want to wait around for lightning to strike, but why not? If you invest yourself in chance, the potential for disappointment is pretty low.

God works according to the law of gradual growth, so don't be discouraged if your progress seems slow.

Sometimes life coughs up coincidences no writer of fiction would dare copy.

Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.

He sighed, wondering how his life had been turned upside down by this woman in less than forty-eight hours. Correction: by this woman, a pig, and a rabbit.

Daughter, I have now lived a hundred and nine winters in this world and have never yet met any such thing as Luck. There is something about all this that I do not understand: but if ever we need to know it, you may be sure that we shall.

The least planned part of the journey, however, was the journey itself.

We do not obtain the most precious gifts by going in search of them but by waiting for them.

You can't force a movie to happen. Movies happen when they're supposed to happen. Everything happens in God's time. I really believe that.

I am not perfect." It came out in a rush of breath. "See I thought I was. Thank God I ain't. See a perfect thing ain't got a chance. The world kills it, everything perfect. (Listen to him!) Now see a thing that ain't perfect, it grows like a weed. Yeah, like a weed! A thing that ain't perfect gets hand clapping, smiles, takes the wire an easy winner. But the world ain't set up right if you perfect. You lible to run right into a brick wall. Looks like suicide. All the weeds say, looka there, it suicide!

It is a simple procedure to calculate the number of seeds in an apple. But who among us can ever say how many apples are in a seed?

We often say God is never late, but generally He isn’t early either. Why? Because He uses times of waiting to stretch our faith in Him and to bring about change and growth in our lives.

I like to be surprised by life.