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Quotes from Blue Like Jazz — Don Miller

born 1971 United States

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37 quotes

I think every well-adjusted human being has dealt squarely with his or her own depravity.

Blue Like Jazz (2003)

Nothing is going to change in the Congo until you and I figure out what is wrong with the person in the mirror.

Blue Like Jazz (2003)

Your problem is not that God is not fulfilling, your problem is that you are spoiled.

Blue Like Jazz (2003)

Passion about nothing is like pouring gasoline into a car without wheels.

Blue Like Jazz (2003)

The knowledge of God seeped out of my brain and into my heart.

Blue Like Jazz (2003)

It is always the simple things that change our lives.

Blue Like Jazz (2003)

Without the Christian explanation of original sin, the seemingly silly story of Adam and Eve and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, there was no explanation of conflict. At all.

Blue Like Jazz (2003)

When everybody thinks you are nuts you finally just give in to their pressure and actually go nuts.

Blue Like Jazz (2003)

I don't think there is any better worship than wonder.

Blue Like Jazz (2003)

I think the things we want most in life, the things we think will set us free, are not the things we need.

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The most difficult lie I have ever contended with is this: Life is a story about me.

Blue Like Jazz (2003)

Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself. It is as if they are showing you the way.

Blue Like Jazz (2003)

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.

Blue Like Jazz (2003)

Some people skip through life; some people are dragged through it. I sometimes wonder whether we are moving through time or time is moving through us.

Blue Like Jazz (2003)

Satan, who I believe exists as much as I believe Jesus exists, wants us to believe meaningless things for meaningless reasons.

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What I believe is not what I say I believe; what I believe is what I do.

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Life will reveal answers at the pace life wishes to do so. You feel like running, but life is on a stroll. This is how God does things.

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Six billion people live in this world, and I can only muster thoughts for one. Me.

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All great characters in stories are the ones who give their lives to something bigger than themselves. And in all of the stories I don't find anyone more noble than Jesus.

Blue Like Jazz (2003)

"You know, Don, marriage is worth the trade. You lose all your freedom but you get this friend. This incredible friend."

Blue Like Jazz (2003)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Don Miller (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.