Keith Miller Quotations

No gentleman ever discusses any relationship with a lady.

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

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

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

Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth.

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

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

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

We are a nation of people who are afraid we are not enough.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

When we go out with the idea that we are going to fix somebody, then it communicates to them that they are inferior and it shames them.

We know what we can do. This team has plenty of talent and potential; now it's up to us to just go out there and continue to make a name for ourselves.

There are no concerns here. We deal mostly with wood.

If I told someone I had a chance to bring an industry into the county that added $6 million per year in income, people would sit up and take notice.

Her level of consistency is unmatched. We look for Jennifer to continue to set the pace for the team as she transitions into the leadership position that comes with being an upperclassman.

I was confident. I just screamed back then - I threw myself into it.

Last year Matthew was our most improved shooter. If he picks it up at the beginning of the season and continues down that path, he'll be tough to beat. During Thomas's very first college match he set a new school record in air rifle. We've changed his positions a little bit and he has become really defined. Bill has become a much better shooter over time, improving immensely. At his new skill level, he can really challenge our other veterans, and that speaks really well for the level of talent that we have on this team.

Physicians will still have to evaluate information correctly. They will have to use their experience and knowledge to make the best decision. They will not, by any means, become robots.

We had an excellent year. I think one difference we're seeing is that the current county commissioners are focused on job creation more than start-up businesses.

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

What we see is that each person's cancer is genetically different. Some respond better to radiation, some to chemotherapy. The responses have to be assessed and the patient treated accordingly.

When I share my reality with you and you don't fix me, we have been intimate because then you share your reality with me and I don't fix you.

You shouldn't have a federal judge micromanaging state agencies, state government. It shouldn't be done, and experience has shown it's not helpful to the people it's supposed to help.

It's more about skill level than the raw numbers of these kids.

It's not his responsibility to get these people off the list. That's Mental Health and the governor and the Legislature.

It's not like the maturity of a basketball or football player who learns systems and things like that. Shooters do progress during school, but if they come in as good shooters they can immediately be a top-five shooter, and that's not unheard of at all.

The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.

In past years, the NCAA Qualifier alone determined team NCAA ranking and invitations to the NCAA Championships. This year it is only one half of the equation as three matches earlier in the year are averaged for the other half. However, for individuals, the qualifier is it. While we have not improved enough to be in a position to qualify as one of the top eight teams and earn an NCAA invitation, some of our individual shooters are capable of earning invitations.

I honestly never tried to tie the two events together. I still kind of disbelieve both events. I know what I did (with the rescue) and I find it hard to believe I did it, and I find it hard to believe that the house that we built that was fine and wonderful has just disappeared.

In the past couple of seasons we've been in a situation where one of our better performances comes in preparation for the national qualifier. With these new regulations, we feel like we'll have an even better shot of rounding out our numbers and entering the championship field.

He can do as many as he wants, but he's being very careful. He is being very careful who he lends his name to; he won't be associated with just anybody.

The hallmark of a U.S. education is critical thinking. So the mission of this office is not just to have schools for U.S. citizens but to have models of education for others. It's a twofold thing.

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

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

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.

I am too old to think.

This is the year of expansion in the Kingdom of God! Tent pegs will span to the north, the south, the east, and the west in the realm of revelation in the dominion of the Kingdom, where you will walk in a greater dimension of the manifestation of the Kingdom for your life!

I am deeply a part of the problem for which Christ died.

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.

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

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

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.

I was taught that pain is bad.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.