Faith & Spirit Quote by Keith Miller

Feelings, in Keith Miller's framing, aren't messy interruptions to "real life" so much as a calibrated palette: a set of signals meant to be read. The color chart metaphor does a lot of quiet work. A chart implies range, nuance, and comparison; you don't argue with whether a swatch is blue or green, you learn to see gradations. Miller nudges the reader away from moralizing emotion ("good" feelings vs. "bad" ones) and toward discernment: what shade is this, what does it match, what is it telling me?

Invoking God sharpens the intent. This isn't pop-therapy validation; it's a theological claim about design. If feelings are given, they're not merely private weather. They're part of a created system, like conscience or appetite, with purpose and limits. That subtext pushes back on two temptations at once: the stoic reflex to distrust emotion as irrational, and the modern reflex to treat emotion as sovereign truth. A chart is informative, not authoritative. It helps you choose the paint; it doesn't become the house.

Context matters because Miller wrote out of a 20th-century American religious landscape that often swung between suspicion of emotion (revivalism's hangover, respectability politics) and its overindulgence (testimony as performance, sincerity as proof). The line offers a third lane: spirituality as emotional literacy. God isn't used here as a trump card to sanctify every impulse; God is invoked to dignify feeling as data with spiritual and relational stakes. The quiet provocation is that maturity isn't feeling less, it's learning the spectrum.