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Book: Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality
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  1. Donald Miller _ Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious

    ...I want my spirituality to rid me of hate, not give me reason for it.
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  2. Donald Miller _ Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious

    There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing.
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  3. Donald Miller _ Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious

    When you live on your own for a long time, however, your personality changes because you go so much into yourself you lose the ability to be social, to understand what is and isn't normal behavior. There is an entire world inside yourself, and if you let yourself, you can get so deep inside it you will forget the way to the surface. Other people keep our souls alive, just like food and water does with our body.
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  4. Donald Miller _ Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious

    I am something of a recluse by nature. I am that cordless screwdriver that has to charge for twenty hours to earn ten minutes use. I need that much downtime.
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  5. Donald Miller _ Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious

    I think if you like somebody you have to tell them. It might be embarrassing to say it, but you will never regret stepping up. I know from personal experience, however, that you should not keep telling a girl that you like her after she tells you she isn't into it. You should not keep riding your bike by her house either.
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  6. Donald Miller _ Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious

    The most difficult lie I have ever contended with is this: life is a story about me.
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  7. Donald Miller _ Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious

    I always thought the Bible was more of a salad thing, you know, but it isn't. It's a chocolate thing.
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  8. Donald Miller _ Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious

    ...to be in a relationship with God is to be loved purely and furiously. And a person who thinks himself unlovable cannot be in a relationship with God because he can't accept who God is; a Being that is love. We learn that we are lovable or unlovable from other people...That is why God tells us so many times to love each other.
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  9. Donald Miller _ Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious

    I will give you this, my love, and I will not bargain or barter any longer. I will love you, as sure as He has loved me. I will discover what I can discover and though you remain a mystery, save God's own knowledge, what I disclose of you I will keep in the warmest chamber of my heart, the very chamber where God has stowed Himself in me. And I will do this to my death, and to death it may bring me. I will love you like God, because of God, mighted by the power of God. I will stop expecting your love, demanding you love, trading for your love, gaming for your love. I will simply love. I am giving myself to you, and tomorrow I will do it again. I suppose the clock itself will wear thin its time before I am ended at this altar of dying and dying again. God risked Himself on me. I will risk myself on you. And together, we will learn to love, and perhaps then, and only then, understand this gravity that drew Him, unto us.
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  10. Donald Miller _ Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious

    Dying for something is easy because it is associated with glory. Living for something is the hard thing. Living for something extends beyond fashion, glory, or recognition. We live for what we believe.
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  11. Donald Miller _ Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious

    ...sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself...
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  12. Donald Miller _ Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious

    I once listened to an Indian on television say that God was in the wind and the water, and I wondered at how beautiful that was because it meant you could swim in Him or have Him brush your face in a breeze.
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