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Bluish Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality by Donald Miller
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"I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. Merely I was exterior the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when I saw a man playing the saxophone. I stood there for fifteen minutes, and he never opened his eyes.

Subsequently that I liked jazz music.

Sometimes y'all have to picket somebody love something before yous can love it yourself. Information technology is as if they are showing you the way.

I used to non like God because God didn't resolve. Simply that was before any of this happened."
― Donald Miller, Blue Similar Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

"Writers don't make whatever money at all. We make almost a dollar. It is terrible. Merely so again we don't piece of work either. We sit around in our underwear until noon then become downstairs and brand coffee, fry some eggs, read the paper, read part of a book, odour the book, wonder if perhaps we ourselves should piece of work on our book, odour the book over again, throw the book across the room because nosotros are quite jealous that any other person wrote a book, feel terribly guilty about throwing the schmuck's book beyond the room because we secretly wonder if God in sky noticed our evil jealousy, or worse, our laziness. We then prevarication across the burrow facedown and mumble to God to forgive usa because we are secretly afraid He is going to dry upwards all our words because nosotros envied another man's stupid words. And for this, as I said, we are paid a dollar. We are worth and so much more."
― Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

" I will give you this, my love, and I will not bargain or castling whatsoever longer. I will honey you, as certain as He has loved me. I volition discover what I can discover and though you remain a mystery, salve God's own knowledge, what I disclose of yous I volition keep in the warmest bedchamber of my middle, the very bedchamber where God has stowed Himself in me. And I will do this to my expiry, and to decease information technology may bring me.
I will love you lot like God, because of God, mighted past the power of God. I volition finish expecting your love, enervating yous love, trading for your honey, gaming for your beloved. I volition simply love. I am giving myself to you, and tomorrow I will do it again. I suppose the clock itself volition wear thin its fourth dimension before I am ended at this altar of dying and dying again.
God risked Himself on me. I will adventure myself on you. And together, we will learn to love, and mayhap then, and only then, understand this gravity that drew Him, unto us."
― Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

"...to exist in a human relationship with God is to be loved purely and furiously. And a person who thinks himself unlovable cannot exist in a relationship with God because he can't accept who God is; a Being that is dear. We learn that we are lovable or unlovable from other people...That is why God tells us so many times to love each other."
― Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

"I recollect if yous similar somebody y'all accept to tell them. Information technology might exist embarrassing to say information technology, but y'all will never regret stepping upwardly. I know from personal experience, however, that you should not proceed telling a girl that you like her after she tells you lot she isn't into it. You should non keep riding your bike past her house either."
― Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

"When you live on your own for a long fourth dimension, however, your personality changes considering you go so much into yourself yous lose the ability to be social, to empathize what is and isn't normal behavior. In that location is an entire world within yourself, and if you let yourself, you lot can go so deep inside it yous will forget the style to the surface. Other people continue our souls alive, just like food and water does with our torso."
― Donald Miller, Blueish Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

"Everybody wants to be fancy and new. Nobody wants to be themselves. I mean, maybe people want to be themselves, just they desire to be unlike, with different clothes or shorter hair or less fat. It'south a fact. If there was a guy who just liked being himself and didn't want to be anybody else, that guy would be the most different guy in the world and everybody would desire to exist him."
― Donald Miller, Blue Similar Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

"Lonely

One of my new housemates, Stacy, wants to write a story about an astronaut. In his story the astronaut is wearing a suit that keeps him alive past recycling his fluids. In the story the astronaut is working on a space station when an accident takes place, and he is cast into space to orbit the earth, to spend the rest of his life circumvoluted the world. Stacy says this story is how he imagines hell, a place where a person is completely alone, without others and without God. Subsequently Stacy told me about his story, I kept seeing it in my listen. I idea about it earlier I went to sleep at dark. I imagined myself looking out my trivial chimera helmet at blue earth, reaching toward information technology, closing it between my puffy white infinite-suit fingers, wondering if my friends were still there. In my imagination I would call to them, yell for them, but the sound would simply come dorsum loud inside my helmet. Through the years my hair would grow long in my helmet and get together effectually my forehead and fall across my eyes. Because of my helmet I would not be able to touch my face with my hands to move my hair out of my eyes, so my view of world, slowly, over the start two years, would dim to but a thin low-cal through a drapery of thatch and beard.
I would lay there in bed thinking nearly Stacy'due south story, putting myself out in that location in the blackness. And there came a time, in space, when I could not tell whether I was awake or asleep. All my thoughts mingled together because I had no people to remind me what was real and what was non existent. I would punch myself in the side to feel pain, and this manner I could be relatively sure I was not dreaming. Within x years I was beginning to breathe heavy through my pilus and my bristles equally they were pressing tough against my face up and had begun to roll into my mouth and upward my nose. In space, I forgot that I was human. I did not know whether I was a ghost or an bogeyman or a demon thing.
Later I thought nigh Stacy's story, I lay in that location in bed and wanted to exist touched, wanted to be talked to. I had the terrifying thought that something similar that might happen to me. I idea it was just a terrible story, a painful and ugly story. Stacy had delivered as authentic a description of a hell as could be calculated. And what is sad, what is very sad, is that we are proud people, and because we have sensitive egos so many of us live our lives in front end of our televisions, not having to deal with existent people who might hurt the states or offend us, we bladder along on our couches like astronauts moving aimlessly through the Milky Way, hardly interacting with other man beings at all."
― Donald Miller, Blue Similar Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

"At the end of the day, when I am lying in bed and I know the chances of whatsoever of our theology being exactly right are a 1000000 to one, I demand to know that God has things figured out, that if my math is wrong we are still going to be okay. And wonder is that feeling we get when we let go of our silly answers, our mapped out rules that we want God to follow. I don't remember in that location is any better worship than wonder."
― Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

"It comforts me to think that if we are created beings the affair that created us would have to be greater than the states, then much greater, in fact, that we would not be able to understand it. It would have to exist greater than the facts of our reality and so information technology would seem to united states of america, looking out from within our reality that information technology would contradict reason. But reason itself would suggest it would take to be greater than reality or information technology would not be reasonable."
― Donald Miller, Blue Similar Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

"I volition dear yous like God, considering of God, mighted past the power of God. I will stop expecting your love, enervating your love, trading for your love, gaming for your love. I volition simply dearest. I am giving myself to you, and tomorrow I volition do it again. I suppose the clock itself will article of clothing thin its fourth dimension before I am ended at this altar of dying and dying once more. God risked Himself on me. I volition chance myself on you. And together, nosotros will larn to beloved, and perhaps then, and only then, understand this gravity that drew Him, unto u.s.a.."
― Donald Miller, Bluish Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

"They are lone. I'k not talking almost lonely for a lover or a friend. I mean lonely in the universal sense, lonely inside the understanding that we are tiny people on a tiny picayune earth suspended in an countless void that echoes past stars and stars of stars."
― Donald Miller, Bluish Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality

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