Top 48 Quotes & Sayings by Keith Miller

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American author Keith Miller.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Keith Ross Miller, was an Australian Test cricketer and a Royal Australian Air Force pilot during World War II. Miller is widely regarded as Australia's greatest ever all-rounder. His ability, irreverent manner and good looks made him a crowd favourite. English journalist Ian Wooldridge called Miller "the golden boy" of cricket, leading to his being nicknamed "Nugget". He "was more than a cricketer ... he embodied the idea that there was more to life than cricket".

American - Author | Born: April 19, 1927

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

Keith Miller

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

Keith Miller

Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth.

Keith Miller

I am too old to think.

Keith Miller

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

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

Keith Miller

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

Keith Miller

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

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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

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

Keith Miller

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.

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

Keith Miller

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

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

I was taught that pain is bad.

Keith Miller

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

Keith Miller

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

Keith Miller

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

Keith Miller

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

Keith Miller

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

Keith Miller

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

No gentleman ever discusses any relationship with a lady.

Keith Miller

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

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

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

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

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

Keith Miller

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

Keith Miller

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.

Keith Miller

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

Keith Miller

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

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

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

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

Keith Miller

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!

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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

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

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

Keith Miller

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

Keith Miller

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

Keith Miller

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

Keith Miller

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

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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.

Keith Miller

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.

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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.

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

Keith Miller

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

Keith Miller