Keith Miller famous quotes

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.
-- Keith Miller

#Love #Running #Soul

I have learned to like myself for the first time and to have some serenity.
-- Keith Miller

#Serenity #Firsts #First Time

A lot of us have jobs where we need to give people structure but that is different from controlling.
-- Keith Miller

#Jobs #People #Giving

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.
-- Keith Miller

#Memories #Heart #Clouds

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.
-- Keith Miller

#Christian #Adventure #Trying

Religious work is one of the best ways to keep from facing your reality if you are Christian, if you are using it to calm the pain, because that it what all addictions are, attempts to cover the pain of this spiritual disease
-- Keith Miller

#Christian #Spiritual #Religious

But keep characters in propinquity long enough and a story will always develop a plot.
-- Keith Miller

#Character #Long #Plot

I've seen batting all over the world. And in other countries too
-- Keith Miller

#Country #World

We live in a constant fear that our shortcomings will be exposed to family, to friends and to the world
-- Keith Miller

#World #Constant #Exposed

We religious controllers control in the name of Jesus and it is really painful to people
-- Keith Miller

#Religious #Jesus #Names

We can't be intimate because we can't share feelings that we don't have
-- Keith Miller

#Feelings #Intimate #Share

The whole Bible is the story of men and women trying to get back to God, to overcome that sin with sacrifices, good works, sermons, prophesy, witnessing, giving all kinds of things. It never worked
-- Keith Miller

#Sacrifice #Men #Giving

There never was a social change in America without angry people at the heart
-- Keith Miller

#Heart #America #People

No gentleman ever discusses any relationship with a lady.
-- Keith Miller

#Gentleman

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.
-- Keith Miller

#Brother #Father #Boys

A spiritual person is also in touch with his or her own reality, feelings and thoughts, and the reality of the people around him or her, not projecting on them.
-- Keith Miller

#Spiritual #Reality #People

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.
-- Keith Miller

#Book #Wine #Reality

I'll tell you what pressure is. Pressure is a Messerschmitt up your arse. Playing cricket is not.
-- Keith Miller

#Arses #Pressure #Cricket

I learned that the purpose of the Twelve Steps is to do the will of God.
-- Keith Miller

#Twelve #Purpose #Steps

I was taught that pain is bad.
-- Keith Miller

#Pain #Taught

Beneath all of these addictions is this disease, this control disease which is the mark of our society.
-- Keith Miller

#Addiction #Disease #Our Society

Feelings are like a color chart that God has given us.
-- Keith Miller

#Color #Feelings #Given

What happens is that people who are very religious but who are not in touch with reality, cannot be spiritual.
-- Keith Miller

#Spiritual #Religious #Reality

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.
-- Keith Miller

#Christian #Selfish #Mean

My only hope to receive love is to let you see who I am, then I may believe you.
-- Keith Miller

#Believe #Love Is #Who I Am

If God is in a life, it doesn't have to be big to be happy and to be important in His kingdom.
-- Keith Miller

#Important #Kingdoms #Bigs

I am too old to think.
-- Keith Miller

#Thinking

I am six feet tall. I am not supposed to be afraid.
-- Keith Miller

#Feet #Six

A forest is mystery but the desert is truth. Life pared to the bone.
-- Keith Miller

#Desert #Forests #Mystery

The problem is that this speeded-up life and stress in America causes us to cut off our feelings, so we are out of touch with our reality.
-- Keith Miller

#Stress #Cutting #Reality

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.
-- Keith Miller

#Coffee #Writing #Wine

Intimacy, as I am using it, is sharing my reality with you.
-- Keith Miller

#Reality #Intimacy

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.
-- Keith Miller

#Pain #Successful #Men

The primary symptom of a controller is denial, that is I can't see its symptoms in myself.
-- Keith Miller

#Denial #Symptoms #Controllers

Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth.
-- Keith Miller

#Wisdom #Pain #Doorways