Keith Miller Quotes (50 Quotes)


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

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

    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.

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

    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.


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

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

    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.

    It has made us start controlling each other and doing things we really don't want to do and are not supposed to do as Christians.

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

    Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth.

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

    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.

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

    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.

    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.

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

    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.

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

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

    We're looking forward to that. Hopefully after last weekend, the kids will understand the importance of team play as opposed to individual playplaying your position and taking your runs.

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

    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.

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

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

    What happened was that I got in the Twelve Steps programs and got closer and closer to Christ. Suddenly, He was real to me in a way He had never been.

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

    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.

    I began to see my family as not behaving very well for a real religious speaker, so I started controlling them, trying to get them under control.

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

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

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

    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.

    In a Christian group if somebody cries, you rush over and hug them, pat them and stuff kleenex in their face, because we can't stand their pain.

    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.

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

    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.

    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.

    No gentleman ever discusses any relationship with a lady.

    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.

    As a church, we seem to have forgotten the point of our message, like people who have a great joke to tell and who have forgotten the punch line.

    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.


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


    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.

    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.

    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.

    From Rome, NBC News correspondent Keith Miller said the eyes of the world could be felt as they were trained on Vatican City, and as a result, it felt like the center of the universe ... one of the largest Christian gatherings in history.

    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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