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20 Things I Learned Reading All Of Donald Miller’s Books

20 Things I Learned Reading All Of Donald Miller’s Books

I just finished reading all of the books Donald Miller has (so far) written.

Through this, Miller has easily made a spot as one of my favorite authors.

I surprisingly even read them in the order they were written.

Here are 20 things I learned while reading all of Donald Miller’s books.

1. Life is about change.

2. Eating chocolates and smoking cigarettes can go with Bible reading.

3. More stuff and the approval of others will not make you happy.

4. Relationships can reveal God’s nature.

5. What you believe is what you do – not what you say.

6. Life is not a story about me.

7. What we all really want in life is relational.

8. Someone telling you that you are worth something can change your life.

9. The point of life is just like a story. It is about character transformation.

10. Being a writer is not as glamorous as it sometimes seems.

11. A safe person speaks truth in grace.

12. True intimacy involves being completely open.

13. Love is not like a fairy tale. Love is more like farming.

14. Love is worth the cost.

15. Reacting without thinking is a bad, bad choice.

16. God made kids cute so we would not forget to feed them.

17. Love is not a feeling. It can include feeling, but love is action.

18. You are not responsible to change people. You are only required love and affirm them.

19. A sad part of life is that you don’t remember half of it.

20. The best books are written by people being vulnerable.

These books:
Through Painted Deserts (Amazon)
Blue Like Jazz (Amazon)
Searching For God Knows What (Amazon)
Father Fiction (Amazon)
A Million Miles In A Thousand Years (Amazon)

Scary Close (Amazon)

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I Just Turned 35: Here Are 20 Things I Learned In The Last Year

I Just Turned 35: Here Are 20 Things I Learned In The Last Year

1. Love is larger than the walls that shut it in.

2. No one can degrade you. They cannot touch your soul.

3. Love is built on devotion, mission, and sacrifice – not romance and emotion.

4. Don’t eat in restaurants with disgusting bathrooms.

5. Most of our complaining has to do with the abundance of our benefits.

6. Don’t learn from your mistakes. Learn from other people’s mistakes.

7. Certain scientific assumptions cannot be proved scientifically. For example, laws of logic, the order of the world, the reliability of our cognitive faculties, and the validity of induction.

8. I have too much stuff.

9. Work you are not passionate about is not worth doing.

10. Persistence can get you a long way.

11. Gathering knowledge without applying it is a sin.

12. Always say less than necessary.

13. Appearance matters.

14. Journeys should be planned with the destination in view. Life is no exception to this.

15. Being original means you can aggregate so well that your plagiarism is undetectable.

16. If your daughter wants to talk to you-you talk to her.

17. Every bad thing has a redemptive aspect.

18. A change in perspective will change your outlook.

19. People should chase their career dreams.

20. Character change is the point of a story. It is also the point of life.

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