{"author":"Donald Miller","author_id":"Donald+Miller","total_quotes":111,"quotes":[{"text":"The mountains themselves call us into greater stories.","author":"Donald Miller","tags":["inspirational","life","mountains","stories"],"id":6586,"author_id":"Donald+Miller"},{"text":"When one of my friends becomes a Christian, which happens about every 10 years because I am a sheep about sharing my faith, the experience is euphoric. I see in their eyes the trueness of the story.","author":"Donald Miller","tags":["conversion","spiritual-warfare","testimony"],"id":12521,"author_id":"Donald+Miller"},{"text":"What if part of God's message to the world was you, the true and real you?","author":"Donald Miller","tags":["individuality","inspiration","uniqueness","voice"],"id":17158,"author_id":"Donald+Miller"},{"text":"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.","author":"Donald Miller","tags":["discipleship","love-of-god"],"id":23152,"author_id":"Donald+Miller"},{"text":"You don't realize your story is changing you until you look back.","author":"Donald Miller","tags":["discipleship","history","perspective"],"id":29572,"author_id":"Donald+Miller"},{"text":"Reality is like a fine wine,” he said to me. “It will not appeal to children.","author":"Donald Miller","tags":["christianity","donald-miller","faith","reality","spirituality"],"id":36325,"author_id":"Donald+Miller"},{"text":"I was starting to believe I was a character in a greater story, which is why the elements of story made sense in the first place.","author":"Donald Miller","tags":["story","storytelling"],"id":36492,"author_id":"Donald+Miller"},{"text":"A person could read the Bible, not to become smart, but rather to feel that they are not alone, that somebody understands them and love them enough to speak to them, on purpose, in a way that makes a person feel human.","author":"Donald Miller","tags":["bible","prayer","word-of-god"],"id":48806,"author_id":"Donald+Miller"},{"text":"The inciting incident is how you get (characters) to do something. It's the doorway through which they can't return, you know. The story takes care of the rest.","author":"Donald Miller","tags":["story"],"id":50433,"author_id":"Donald+Miller"},{"text":"You'd think God would come right out and tell us what to do in the Bible, but He doesn't. He mostly tells stories, and He rarely stops the story to say what the point is. He just lets the characters and conflict hang in the air like smoke.","author":"Donald Miller","tags":["bible","discipleship","exegesis","uncertainty"],"id":53459,"author_id":"Donald+Miller"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":111,"pages":12,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}