14 Don Miller Quotes on Love

Don Miller quotes on love

9. There are two types of men in this world--one is looking for a woman to make his life complete and the other is looking for a woman to join his complete life.

10. 'I guess I'm looking for what any guy is looking for. I want a companion, you know. Just someone to share life with. I want her to be my biggest fan and I want to be her biggest fan, too. I want us to raise kids in a home where they know their parents are in love with each other, with them, and with God. I guess that's all I want.'

11. 'You know what I want in a woman, Paul?' 'What's that?' 'A friend. A true friend; someone who knows me and loves me anyway. You know, like when I'm through putting my best foot forward, she's still there, still the same.'

13. Outside of God's perspective, even romance loses its significance. Not in riches or in romance do we find fulfillment, but in God.

37. Cupid is fat and slow and can't hit moving targets.

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

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.

80. The churches I attended would embrace war metaphor. They would talk about how we are in a battle, and I agreed with them, only they wouldn't clarify that we were battling poverty and hate and injustice and pride and the power of darkness. The left us thinking that our war was against liberals and homosexuals. Their teaching would have me believe I was the good person in the world and the liberals were the bad people in the world. Jesus taught that we are all bad and He is good, and He wants to rescue us because there is a war going on and we are hostages in that war. The truth is we are supposed to love the hippies, the liberals, and even the Democrats, and that God wants us to think of them as more importatnt than ourselves. Anything short of this is not true to the teachings of Jesus.

85. 'I mean that 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,' Paul says. 'That is why God tells us so many times to love each other.'

86. I no longer think being in love is the polar opposite of being alone, however. I say that because I used to want to be in love again as I assumed this was the opposite of lonliness. I think being in love is an opposite of lonliness, but not the opposite. There are other things I now crave when I am lonely, like community, like friendship, like family. I think our society puts too much pressure on romantic love, and that is why so many romances fail. Romance can't possibly carry all that we want it to.

93. It was the affection of Christ, not the brutality of a town, that healed Zacchaeus.

102. The problem with Chrisitan culture is we think of love as a commodity. We use it like money.

103. I used love like money, but love doesn't work like money. It is not a commodity. When we barter with it, we all lose. When the church does not love its enemies, it fuels their rage. It makes them hate us more.

105. I have come to understand that strength, inner strength, comes from recieving love as much as it comes from giving it...God's love will never change us if we don't accept it.