Quotes from Keith Miller

I was taught that pain is bad.

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

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

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

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

I am six feet tall. I am not supposed to be afraid.

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

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.

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

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.

Prayer no longer seems like an activity to me; it has become the continuing language of the relationship I believe God designed to fulfill a human life.

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

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

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.

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.

All I have to tell you about is what I have heard and seen of Jesus, how He is helping me find freedom, to occasionally love other people, and even accept myself with all my mixed motives.

Then one day I read about a book that said that the church is the only army that shoots its wounded.

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

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.

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

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.

Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth.

You are controlling because I want you to do it, not because of the situation or what needs to be done.

We can't be intimate because we can't share feelings that we don't have.