Keith Miller Quotes

• Conversations in the flesh are the first drafts toward the later conversations of the mind, where words and ideas are sorted and elaborated, recast.

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

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

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

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

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

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• 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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• 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.

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

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• 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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• Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth.

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

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

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

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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.

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• I was taught that pain is bad.

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• 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.

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

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

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Keith Miller (28)

Birth:	28th November, 1919
Death:	11th October, 2004
Nationality:	Australian
Profession:	Cricketer

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