Donald Miller Quotes

Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.

It's very important for Christians to be honest with God, which often, you know, God is much more interested in who you are than who you want to be.

My parents used to say faith wasn't something you could pretend about. It wasn't real unless it looked like faith and acted like faith.

People don't need Christians to act like we always have it together. People need us to be real! What kind of healing would come if we all just got real before God and others?

The best evidence of our having the truth is our walking in the truth.

I think romance is anything honest. As long as it's honest, it's so disarming.

You can't fake it when you're alone with God, you know.

When something really comes from the soul, I think it has a truth that you cannot find in politics.

Jesus didn't die for us so we could pretend to be something we're not.

It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.

I think my favorite two words are 'true blue.' I think those words are really important, and the spirit of them has been lost.

Sincerity is to speak as we think, to do as we pretend and profess, to perform and make good what we promise, and really to be what we would seem and appear to be.

Sincerity is the same in a corner alone, as it is before the face of the world. It knows not how to wear two vizards, one for an appearance before men, and another for a short snatch in a corner; but it must have God, and be with him in the duty of prayer. It is not lip-labour that it doth regard, for it is the heart that God looks at, and that which sincerity looks at, and that which prayer comes from, if it be that prayer which is accompanied with sincerity.

God isn't afraid of our doubts; He's way more concerned when we fake it.

Dogs don't lie and why should I? Strangers come they growl and bark, they know their loved ones in the dark, Now let me, by night or day, Be just as full of truth as they.

Fidelity is simply daring to be true in small things as well as great.

Our prayers are heard by God not according to what we try to be when we pray, but who we are when we are not praying

A deep and sober concern to please God is the rarest of rarities.

‎"Sincerity is the biggest part of selling anything -- including the Christian plan of salvation.

I believe I am not mistaken in saying that Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy and amusing, it is another kind of religion altogether.

Formed on the good old plan, A true and brave and downright honest man! He blew no trumpet in the market-place, Nor in the church with hypocritic face Supplied with cant the lack of Christian grace; Loathing pretence, he did with cheerful will What others talked of while their hands were still.

Prayer is not eloquence but earnestness.

Our Christian witness is authentic when it is faithful and unconditional.

The world is looking, not for Christians who are perfect, but for Christians who are honest and who are willing to be honest with some of our contradictions and hypocrisy.

Sincerity means that the appearance and the reality are exactly the same.