Dwight Eisenhower said that from the beginning, his mother and father operated on an assumption that set the course of his life - that the world could be fixed of its problems if every child understood the necessity of their existence. Eisenhower's parents assumed, and taught their children, that if their children weren't alive, their family couldn't function. (page 34)
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Donald Miller
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Donald Miller currently has 112 indexed quotes and 7 linked works on QuoteMust. This page is the canonical destination for that author archive.
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A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality
Father Fiction: Chapters for a Fatherless Generation
Scary Close: Dropping the Act and Finding True Intimacy
Searching for God Knows What
Through Painted Deserts: Light, God, and Beauty on the Open Road
To Own a Dragon: Reflections on Growing Up Without a Father
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He thought about the story his daughter was living and the role she was playing inside that story. He realized he hadn't provided a better role for his daughter. He hadn't mapped out a story for his family. And so his daughter had chosen another story, a story in which she was wanted, even if she was only being used. In the absence of a family story, she'd chosen a story in which there was risk and adventure, rebellion and independence.
What good does it do to tell somebody to live morally so they can die 50 years later and apparently go to Hell?
When you live countless stories in which you play a sedentary role, it's an odd feeling to switch stories.