8 Don Miller Quotes on Belief

Don Miller quotes on belief

24. I do not belive that I have a thinking problem as much as a feeling problem. What I mean is, I know the Christian answer to most quesitons but I do not always live accordingly. I am not pagan. But my 'goodness' is the product of moral upbringing, not of a coherent biblical worldview. I tend do to and thing as I feel like doing and thinking. There is rarely and exception. I am guided by Pavlovian instincts. Church culture has a vocabulary, and I have learned it well. There is a dress code too, and my clothes are well within the acceptable parameters, I wear Dockers and plaid shirts, as is silently required of twenty-something Christians. I only vote Republican, which is also silently required.

27. 'Don.' 'Yeah.' 'Why don't people believe?' 'Why don't they believe what?' 'In God.' 'I don't know. Not everyone has a Volkswagen.'

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

71. And that's when I realized that believing in God is as much like falling in love as it is like making a decision. Love is both something that happens to you and something you decide upon.

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

74. But the trouble with deep belief is that it costs something. And there is something inside me, some selfish beast of a subtle thing that doesn't like the truth at all because it carries responsiblity, and if I actually believe these things I have to do something about them.

75. Even our beliefs have become trend statements. We don't even believe things because we believe them anymore. We only believe things because they are cool things to believe.

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