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[I]f we live behind a mask we can impress but we can’t connect.

– Donald Miller in Scary Close p.171

Environments in which we are encouraged to hide our faults are toxic.

– Donald Miller in Scary Close p.158

[F]ear of letting people down is one of the primary reasons people procrastinate.

– Donald Miller in Scary Close p.143

[Y]ou can’t have a true, intimate relationship with people you control. Control is about fear. Intimacy is about risk.

– Donald Miller in Scary Close p.106

[True intimacy is] the one thing we all want, and must give up control to get.

– Donald Miller in Scary Close p.98

Real love stories don’t have dictators, they have participants.

– Donald Miller in Scary Close p. 98

Loving a woman is scarier that climbing a mountain or sailing an ocean … A mountain can hurt your body and an ocean can drown you, but in the end you’re still a man for conquering them. Dead or alive, you’re still a man. A woman though, can rob your manhood and reduce you to a boy at the drop of a word.

– Donald Miller in Scary Close p. 97

[T]o love somebody is to give them the power to hurt you.

– Donald Miller in Scary Close p.90

God doesn’t give us crying, pooping children because he wants to advance our careers. He gives them to us for the same reason he confused languages at the Tower of Babel, to create chaos and deter us from investing too much energy in the gluttonous idols of self-absorption.

– Donald Miller in Scary Close p.90