Quotes about Relationships
Finally, when I finished rambling, he said, "Don, all relationships are teleological." I asked him what the word teleological meant. "It means they're going somewhere," Al said. "All relationships are living and alive and moving and becoming something.
— Donald Miller
The same is true in social relationships. Commitment in a relationship takes time.
— Donald Miller
It's not that bad, Don. Don't worry. It's just that for some reason, you are letting this girl name you." "What do you mean, name me?" "Well, you are letting her decide your value, you know. Your value has to come from God. And God wants you to receive His love and to love yourself too.
— Donald Miller
Jesus does not want us floating through space or sitting in front of our televisions. Jesus wants us interacting, eating together, laughing together, praying together. Loneliness is something that came with the fall.
— Donald Miller
A Sales Funnel Controls the Pace of the Relationship In a relationship, you talk about things on a fourth or fifth date you might never talk about on a first date.
— Donald Miller
Article that said in the next five years we will become a conglomerate of the people we hang out with. The article went so far as to say relationships were a greater predictor of who we will become than exercise, diet, or media consumption.
— Donald Miller
Those who realize the epic story of life is not about them but actually about the people around them somehow win in the end.
— Donald Miller
We think stories are about getting money and security, but the truth is, it all comes down to relationships.
— Donald Miller
For a long time, I thought I was good at relationships because I was charming.
— Donald Miller
May we all be richly rewarded for putting our customers' stories above our own.
— Donald Miller
If you don't love somebody, it gets annoying when they tell you what to do or what to feel. When you love them you get pleasure from their pleasure, and it makes it easy to serve. I didn't love God because I didn't know God.
— Donald Miller
What if the story of our lives is less about what we build and more about who we build up?
— Donald Miller