Donald Miller





Donald Miller

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Donald Miller grew up in Houston, Texas. Leaving home at the age of twenty-one, he traveled across the country until he ran out of money in Portland, Oregon, where he lives today.

Harvest House Publishers released his first book, Prayer and the Art of Volkswagen Maintenance, in 2000. Two years later, after having audited classes at Portland’s Reed College, Don wrote Blue Like Jazz, which would slowly become a New York Times Bestseller.

In 2004 Don released Searching for God Knows What a book about how the Gospel of Jesus explains the human personality. Searching has become required reading at numerous colleges across the country. In 2005 he released Throug...more


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Average rating: 3.98 · 69,558 ratings · 4,941 reviews · 16 distinct works · Similar authors
Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligiou...
3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 41,656 ratings — published 2003 — 26 editions
Searching for God Knows What
3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 10,890 ratings — published 2000 — 12 editions
A Million Miles in a Thousa...
4.19 of 5 stars 4.19 avg rating — 9,393 ratings — published 2009 — 14 editions
Through Painted Deserts: Li...
3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 4,507 ratings — published 2005 — 10 editions
To Own a Dragon: Reflection...
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 2,220 ratings — published 2006 — 14 editions
Prayer and the Art of Volks...
3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 298 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions
Donald Miller Greatest Hits...
4.28 of 5 stars 4.28 avg rating — 127 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions
Jazz Notes: Improvisations ...
3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 87 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions
Storyline: Finding Your Sub...
4.28 of 5 stars 4.28 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 2012
Catalyst Groupzine: The Cul...
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3.42 of 5 stars 3.42 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2007
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“When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.”
Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life

“Everybody has to leave, everybody has to leave their home and come back so they can love it again for all new reasons.”
Donald Miller, Through Painted Deserts: Light, God, and Beauty on the Open Road

“I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside 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.

After that I liked jazz music.

Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself. It is as if they are showing you the way.

I used to not like God because God didn't resolve. But that was before any of this happened.”
Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality



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