Shauna Niequist

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

— Shauna Niequist

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

— Shauna Niequist

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

— Shauna Niequist

“one of the chief aspects of mothering is prayer,”

— Shauna Niequist

Feeding people is a way of loving them.

— Shauna Niequist

“was love, grace, connection, peace. When”

— Shauna Niequist

“Words that I’m choosing in this season: passion, connection, meaning, love, grace, spirit.”

— Shauna Niequist

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

— Shauna Niequist

“Now I know that the best thing I can offer to this world is not my force or energy, but a well-tended…

— Shauna Niequist

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

— Shauna Niequist

“When Life is Well say THANK YOU & CELEBRATE, and when life is Bitter say THANK YOU & GROW.”

— Shauna Niequist

“when you do what you love with people who love the same thing, something is born into your midst and begins to…

— Shauna Niequist

“I’m finished hustling for perfect. It didn’t deliver what they told me it would. And”

— Shauna Niequist

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

— Shauna Niequist

I believe still today what I have always believed: that God is good, that the world He made is extraordinary, and that…

— Shauna Niequist

“We don't learn to love each other well in the easy moments. Anyone is good company at a cocktail party. But love…

— Shauna Niequist

“Grace isn’t about having a second chance; grace is having so many chances that you could use them through all eternity and…

— Shauna Niequist

But our hearts are more elastic than we think, and the work of forgiveness and transformation and growth can do things you…

— Shauna Niequist

“the home team concept for me is not all about getting myself out of the doghouse with a whole bunch of people…

— Shauna Niequist

“the difference between restaurant cooking and home cooking—and often, too, the difference between great flavor and tasteless food—is two things: more heat…

— Shauna Niequist

“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…

— Shauna Niequist

“The grandest seduction of all is the myth that DOING EVERYTHING BETTER gets us where we want to be. It gets us…

— Shauna Niequist

“But this is what I'm finding, in glimpses and flashes: this is it. This is it, in the best possible way. That…

— Shauna Niequist

I want you to stop running from thing to thing to thing, and to sit down at the table, to offer the…

— Shauna Niequist

“Many of us who have found ourselves to be useful in Christian service have found ourselves unable, if we’re honest, to connect…

— Shauna Niequist

“Our friend Ian, an Episcopal priest, taught us something I’d never heard, something that shaped all of us: on a rainy night,…

— Shauna Niequist

“I forget so easily that there’s a bigger picture. I’m easily seduced by the bustle of the day—lunch and laundry, deadlines and…

— Shauna Niequist

“Part of the magic of the lake is that it isn’t home – it’s away, and away allows us to see the…

— Shauna Niequist

“Today is your big moment. Moments, really. The life you've been waiting for is happening all around you. The scene unfolding right…

— Shauna Niequist

“One thing’s for sure: if you decide to be courageous and sane, if you decide not to overspend or overcommit or overschedule,…

— Shauna Niequist

“Everything is interim. Everything is a path or a preparation for the next thing, and we never know what the next thing…

— Shauna Niequist

“I don’t know where you are these days, what’s broken down and what’s beautiful in your life this season. I don’t know…

— Shauna Niequist

“I have always, essentially, been waiting. Waiting to become something else, waiting to be that person I always thought I was on…

— Shauna Niequist

“AIDS orphans, and while she was there, she felt alive and full of purpose for the first time in years. When she…

— Shauna Niequist

“If what it takes for you this year to be present in this sacred, thin place, to feel the breath and presence…

— Shauna Niequist

“I believe deeply that God does his best work in our lives during times of great heartbreak and loss, and I believe…

— Shauna Niequist

“I believe that this way of living, this focus on the present, the daily, the tangible, this intense concentration not on the…

— Shauna Niequist

“I know that life is busy and hard and that there's crushing pressure to just settle down and get a real job…

— Shauna Niequist

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

— Shauna Niequist

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

— Shauna Niequist