Shauna Niequist Quotes

...what I can do is offer myself, wholehearted and present, to walk with the people I love through the fear and the mess. That's all any of us can do. That's what we're here for.

I want a life that sizzles and pops and makes me laugh out loud...I want my everyday to make God belly laugh, glad that he gave life to someone who loves the gift.

Friendship is an opportunity to act on God's behalf in the lives of the people that we're close to, reminding each other who God is.

Life sneaks up on us every once in a while and gives us something we didn't ever know we wanted, and lights within us a love we didn't even know existed.

Somebody is looking at you - and someone needs to see you walk this journey of following God's calling.

There is a season for wildness and a season for settledness, and this is neither. This season is about becoming.

Life hands us opportunities at every turn to get over ourselves, to get outside ourselves, to wake up from our own bad dreams and realize that really lovely things are happening all the time.

When we do the hard, intimate work of friendship, we bring a little more of the divine into daily life.

But our hearts are more elastic than we think, and the work of forgiveness and transformation and growth can do things you can't even imagine from where you're standing now.

Sometimes we have to leave home in order to find out what we left there, and why it matters so much.

When things fall apart, the broken pieces allow all sorts of things to enter, and one of them is the presence of God.

We have, each one of us, been entrusted with one life, made up of days and hours and minutes. We're spending them according to our values, whether or not we admit it.

I believe still today what I have always believed: that God is good, that the world He made is extraordinary, and that His comfort is like nothing else on earth.

If we pay attention to our tears, they'll show us something about ourselves.

The grandest seduction of all is the myth that DOING EVERYTHING BETTER gets us where we want to be. It gets us somewhere, certainly, but not anywhere worth being

In many cases, change is not a function of life's cruelty but instead a function of God's graciousness.

It's not hard to decide what you want your life to be about. What's hard, she said, is figuring out what you're willing to give up in order to do the things you really care about.

My life is a story about who God is and what He does in a human heart.

Sometimes the happiest ending isn't the one you keep longing for, but something you absolutely cannot see from where you are

Feeding people is a way of loving them.

I'm a reader and a storyteller, and God chose literature and story and poetry as the languages of my spiritual text. To me, the Bible is a manifesto, a guide, a love letter, a story.

I have also long held the belief that one's tears are a guide, that when something makes you cry, it means something. If we pay attention to our tears, they'll show us something about ourselves

If the home is a body, the table is the heart, the beating center, the sustainer of life and health.

To pray is to say that there is more than I can see, and more than I can do. There is more going on than meets the eye.

When life is sweet, say thank you and celebrate. And when life is bitter, say thank you and grow.

[Present over perfect is] about rejecting the myth that every day is a new opportunity to prove our worth, and about the truth that our worth is inherent, given by God, not earned by our hustling.

Oh, the quiet moments alone with God I sacrificed in order to cross a few things off the to-do list I worshiped.

We decide where the time goes. There's so much freedom in that, and so much responsibility.

You cannot taste the oil until you pour out the vinegar.