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Searching for God Knows What QUOTES

Searching for God Knows What QUOTES

1 " Reality is like a fine wine,” he said to me. “It will not appeal to children. "

― Donald Miller , Searching for God Knows What

2 " You can't memorize poetry and stay a fake. Sooner or later, you start to understand what these poets are saying, and it makes you feel life has something quite special, with certain layers of meaning to it. "

― Donald Miller , Searching for God Knows What

3 " This message God was communicating to mankind, this Gospel of Jesus, was a message to the heart as much as to the head, that the methodology was as important as the message itself, that the message could not be presented accurately outside of the emotions within which these truths were embedded. "

― Donald Miller , Searching for God Knows What

4 " The separation of truth from reason is a dangerous game. I think ideas have to sink very deeply into a person's soul, into their being, before they can effect change. "

― Donald Miller , Searching for God Knows What

5 " In church, the rules of the lifeboat don't apply. Church is the refuge where the Kingdom of God is emulated, not mocked. "

― Donald Miller , Searching for God Knows What

6 " What good does it do to tell somebody to live morally so they can die 50 years later and apparently go to Hell? "

― Donald Miller , Searching for God Knows What

7 " (The monks) approach was far less narcissistic and our tends to be. Their goal when reading Scripture was to see Christ in every verse, and not a mirror image of themselves. "

― Donald Miller , Searching for God Knows What

8 " Because it is so scatterbrained and has absolutely no charts and graphs, I'm actually quite surprised the Bible sells. "

― Donald Miller , Searching for God Knows What

9 " The actual language of life is not the charts and graphs and stuff we map out to feel smart. The hidden language we are speaking is really about negotiating the feeling God used to give us. "

― Donald Miller , Searching for God Knows What

10 " All our time spent making lists would be better spent painting, or writing, Or singing, or learning to speak stories. Sometimes I feel as though the Church has a kind of pity for Scripture, Always having to come behind it and explain everything, put everything into actionable steps, acronyms and hidden secrets, as though the original writers, and for that matter the Holy Spirit Who worked in the lives of the original writers, were a bunch of you literate hillbillies. I think the methodology God used to explain His Truth is quite superior. My life is a story, more than a list. I don't feel that a list could ever explain the complexity of all this beauty. "

― Donald Miller , Searching for God Knows What

11 " Jesus had no regard for the lifeboat politics you and I live within every day. "

― Donald Miller , Searching for God Knows What

12 " The repentance we are called to is about choosing one audience over another. "

― Donald Miller , Searching for God Knows What

13 " About the time I told God that He didn't exist, I was desperate for an identity. "

― Donald Miller , Searching for God Knows What

14 " A big part of me needed something outside myself to tell me who I was. The thing that had been designed to tell me who I was was gone. "

― Donald Miller , Searching for God Knows What

15 " Paul was terribly personal. The books I like are the ones that make you feel like you are with a person who is being quite vulnerable, telling you all sorts of stuff that is personal, and that's the thing Paul did that makes me like him. "

― Donald Miller , Searching for God Knows What

16 " If the Gospel of Jesus is relational, that is, if our brokenness will be fixed not by our understanding of theology but by God telling us who we are, then this would require a kind of intimacy of which only Heaven knows. "

― Donald Miller , Searching for God Knows What

17 " Just out of high school, you didn't realize you were creating drama for the sake of drama. "

― Donald Miller , Searching for God Knows What

18 " The only appropriate war rhetoric is more rhetoric that calls our enemies spirits and people with flesh the victims of this war. Satan wants us to fight with one another, and I understand that some evil must be restrained, but our war, the war of the ones who believe in Jesus, is a war unseen. If we could muster a portion of the patriotism we feel toward our earthly nations into patriotism and bravery in concert with the kingdom of God, the enemy would take fewer casualties. "

― Donald Miller , Searching for God Knows What

19 " Author Toni Morrison swats aside other possible sources of her success and says that the ONLY reason she is a great writer is because when she walked into a room as a child her father's face lit up. "

― Donald Miller , Searching for God Knows What

20 " I began to wonder if what we were doing it evangelical circles had more to do with redeeming ourselves to culture than it did with showing Jesus to a hurting world, a world literally filled with outcasts. "

― Donald Miller , Searching for God Knows What