Quotes by Keith Miller

About Keith Miller:

Keith Ross Miller is widely regarded as Australia's greatest ever all-rounder. Because of his ability, irreverent manner and good looks he was 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".
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In trying to commit my life to finding and participating in some of the purposes of Christ, as I can determine them, my energies and abilities are gradually being focused and are working together.

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

Stories are life," protested Pico. "Without them, books would be only paper and ink, with them they breathe, the reader is drawn in, the stories become him.

Keith Miller

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

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.

Keith Miller

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

Keith Miller

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

I was taught that pain is bad.

Keith Miller

I am too old to think.

Keith Miller

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

Keith Miller

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

Keith Miller

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

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

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

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

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

Keith Miller

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

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

Keith Miller

Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth.

Keith Miller

Author Bio

  • NameKeith Miller
  • DescriptionCricketer
  • BornNovember 28, 1919
  • DiedOctober 11, 2004
  • CountryAustralia
  • ProfessionCricketer; Australian-rules Footballer
  • AwardsMember Of The Order Of The British Empire; Wisden Cricketer Of The Year; Centenary Medal