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"The problem is this: those of us who are never satisfied with our accomplishments secretly believe nobody will love us unless we're perfect."

Donald Miller, American Author

Perfectionism, Love, Insecurity, Achievement

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"The problem is this: those of us who are never satisfied with our accomplishments secretly believe nobody will love us unless we're perfect."

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"The problem is this: those of us who are never satisfied with our accomplishments secretly believe nobody will love us unless we're perfect."

Donald Miller, American Author

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"I learned that true love turns the other cheek, does not take a wrong into account, loves all people regardless of their indifference or hostility."

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"About the time I told God that He didn't exist, I was desperate for an identity."

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"When you build a city near no mountains and no ocean, you get materialism and traditional religion. People have too much time and lack inspiration."

"What if part of God's message to the world was you, the true and real you?"

"When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you like them for who they are. And when you stop expecting material possessions to complete you, you'd be surprised how much pleasure you get from material possessions. And when you stop expecting God to end all your troubles, you'd be surprised how much you like spending time with God."

"To know there is a better story for your life and to choose something other is like choosing to die."

"This message God was communicating to mankind, this Gospel of Jesus, was a message to the heart as much as to the head, that the methodology was as important as the message itself, that the message could not be presented accurately outside of the emotions within which these truths were embedded."

"The only appropriate war rhetoric is more rhetoric that calls our enemies spirits and people with flesh the victims of this war. Satan wants us to fight with one another, and I understand that some evil must be restrained, but our war, the war of the ones who believe in Jesus, is a war unseen. If we could muster a portion of the patriotism we feel toward our earthly nations into patriotism and bravery in concert with the kingdom of God, the enemy would take fewer casualties."

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