don – The Way I See It

joelwitwer — Tue, 17 Feb 2015 17:39:07 +0000

If a man has no sense of meaning, he will numb himself with pleasure.

– Donald Miller paraphrasing Viktor Frankl in Scary Close p.183

joelwitwer — Tue, 17 Feb 2015 17:38:02 +0000

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

– Donald Miller in Scary Close p.171

joelwitwer — Tue, 17 Feb 2015 17:37:11 +0000

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

– Donald Miller in Scary Close p.158

joelwitwer — Tue, 17 Feb 2015 17:34:34 +0000

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

– Donald Miller in Scary Close p.143

joelwitwer — Tue, 17 Feb 2015 17:33:12 +0000

[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

joelwitwer — Tue, 17 Feb 2015 17:32:30 +0000

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

– Donald Miller in Scary Close p.98

joelwitwer — Tue, 17 Feb 2015 17:31:21 +0000

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

– Donald Miller in Scary Close p. 98

joelwitwer — Tue, 17 Feb 2015 17:30:08 +0000

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 … Continue reading →

joelwitwer — Tue, 17 Feb 2015 17:29:18 +0000

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

– Donald Miller in Scary Close p.90

joelwitwer — Tue, 17 Feb 2015 17:27:39 +0000

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