"The way to love someone is to lightly run your finger over that person's soul until you find a crack, and then gently pour your love into that crack."
Read quote
65 likes
Quote collection
Keith Miller quotes (page 1 of 2)
39 quotes — follow a thought to its full quote page.
"I'll tell you what pressure is. Pressure is a Messerschmitt up your arse. Playing cricket is not."
Read quote
52 likes
"The primary symptom of a controller is denial, that is I can't see its symptoms in myself."
Read quote
51 likes
"A Christian marriage is [not] one with no problems or even a marriage with fewer problems. (It may well mean more problems.) But it does mean a life in which two people are able to accept each other and love each other in the midst of problems and fears. It means a marriage in which selfish people can accept selfish people without constantly trying to change them -- and even accept themselves, because they realize personally that they have been accepted by Christ."
Read quote
20 likes
"But keep characters in propinquity long enough and a story will always develop a plot."
Read quote
17 likes
"I am deeply a part of the problem for which Christ died."
Read quote
17 likes
"I have learned to like myself for the first time and to have some serenity."
Read quote
15 likes
"Memories must enter the bloodstream, must churn awhile through the heart's mill, must be crushed and polished, be nearly forgotten or cling like burs to other stories before they spill forth in purple patterns, shapes of small bones and worm rot, shapes of clouds and the spaces between leaves."
Read quote
15 likes
"I wrote a book called The Taste of New Wine because I couldn't find a book that talked about the reality of the situation and how we were dishonest and afraid."
Read quote
12 likes
"Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth."
Read quote
12 likes
"I grew up and I became very successful at what I did as a young man. I became a work addict because this was the only way I could get any relief from this pain."
Read quote
11 likes
"I am discovering that in trying to find God's will and the shape of the Christian life I have begun an adventure so great that its total completion will always be ahead."
Read quote
11 likes
"A forest is mystery but the desert is truth. Life pared to the bone."
Read quote
10 likes
"I remember when I was a little boy my father didn't love me; he couldn't. He loved my older brother but he couldn't love me somehow, at least not in a way I could understand it."
Read quote
10 likes
"I learned that the purpose of the Twelve Steps is to do the will of God."
Read quote
9 likes
"A lot of us have jobs where we need to give people structure but that is different from controlling."
Read quote
8 likes
"All I have to tell you about is what I have heard and seen of Jesus, how He is helping me find freedom, to occasionally love other people, and even accept myself with all my mixed motives."
Read quote
8 likes
"Intimacy, as I am using it, is sharing my reality with you."
Read quote
8 likes
"The writing of poetry is a chancy business, it's currency solitude and loss, its tools coffee and too much wine, its hours midnight, dawn, and dusk, and unlike other trade the hours asleep are not time off."
Read quote
7 likes
"We live in a constant fear that our shortcomings will be exposed to family, to friends and to the world"
Read quote
7 likes