“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 Behalf Copy Share Image
“it’s in the silence that you can finally allow yourself to be seen, and it’s in the being seen that healing and… — Shauna Niequist Silence Copy Share Image
“When I write, I can see things that I can't otherwise see, and I feel things that I can't otherwise feel.” — Shauna Niequist Feel Copy Share Image
“What I’m learning is that you have to stop doing a whole lot of things to learn what it is you really… — Shauna Niequist Education Copy Share Image
“For some of us, the addiction to motion is so deep, so pervasive, that only dramatic gestures are enough to take hold.” — Shauna Niequist Motion Copy Share Image
“hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you are not, I hope you have the strength to… — Shauna Niequist Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“We decide where the time goes. There's so much freedom in that, and so much responsibility.” — Shauna Niequist Christian living Copy Share Image
There is a season for wildness and a season for settledness, and this is neither. This season is about becoming. — Shauna Niequist Becoming Copy Share Image
“The world is alive, blinking and clicking, winking at us slyly, inviting us to get up and dance to the music that’s… — Shauna Niequist Alive Copy Share Image
“Many of the most deeply spiritual moments of my life haven't happened just in my mind or in my soul. They happened… — Shauna Niequist Break Copy Share Image
“This makes me wonder, of course, about all of Scripture... how many other stories have I twisted to tell my own story?… — Shauna Niequist Altered Copy Share Image
“I am still surprised on a regular basis at the love I feel for the spirit of God, the deep respect and… — Shauna Niequist Kindness Copy Share Image
“The grandest seduction of all is the myth that DOING EVERYTHING BETTER gets us where we want to be. It gets us… — Shauna Niequist Doing better Copy Share Image
“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 Care Copy Share Image
“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 Flavor Copy Share Image
“the home team concept for me is not all about getting myself out of the doghouse with a whole bunch of people… — Shauna Niequist Concept Copy Share Image
“What writing teaches me, over and over, is that God is waiting to be found everywhere, in the darkest corners of our… — Shauna Niequist Dead end Copy Share Image
“One of my core fears is that someone would think I can’t handle as much as the next person. It’s fundamental to… — Shauna Niequist Addiction Copy Share Image
When you eat, I want you to think of God, of the holiness of hands that feed us, of the provision we… — Shauna Niequist Beach Copy Share Image
“I fake-rested instead of real-rested, and then I found that I was real-tired. It feels ludicrous to be a grown woman, a… — Shauna Niequist Rest Copy Share Image
“It seems to me that one of the great hazards is quick love, which is actually charm. We get used to smiling,… — Shauna Niequist Charm Copy Share Image
“As I look back, in many instances, I simply followed the natural course of things. And great things happened, mostly. But over… — Shauna Niequist Barefoot Copy Share Image
“I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without… — Shauna Niequist Faith Copy Share Image
“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 Health Copy Share Image
“believe that this way of living, this focus on the present, the daily, the tangible, this intense concentration not on the news… — Shauna Niequist Children Copy Share Image
“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 Be here now Copy Share Image
“I’m not building a castle or a monument; I’m building a soul and a family. I’ll tell stories all my life, writing… — Shauna Niequist Family Copy Share Image
“When you haven’t yet had your heart really broken, the gospel isn’t about death and rebirth. It’s about life and more life.… — Shauna Niequist Brighter future Copy Share Image
“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 Art Copy Share Image
“Years ago, Aaron and I were talking with the pastor of a fast-growing church, and another friend, a more seasoned pastor. The… — Shauna Niequist Art of life Copy Share Image
“I have always, essentially, been waiting. Waiting to become something else, waiting to be that person I always thought I was on… — Shauna Niequist Day by day Copy Share Image
“Life sneaks up on us every once in a while and gives us something we didn't ever know we wanted, and lights… — Shauna Niequist Giving Copy Share Image
“what people think about you means nothing in comparison to what you believe about yourself.” — Shauna Niequist Person Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the darkest parts of us can be our teachers in ways that our sweeter qualities never could.” — Shauna Niequist Inspirational Copy Share Image
“When we, any of us who have been transformed by Christ, tell our own stories, we’re telling the story of who God… — Shauna Niequist Transformed Copy Share Image
In many cases, change is not a function of life's cruelty but instead a function of God's graciousness. — Shauna Niequist Cases Copy Share Image
“When things fall apart, the broken pieces allow all sorts of things to enter, and one of them is the presence of… — Shauna Niequist Broken Copy Share Image
“Sometimes we have to leave home in order to find out what we left there, and why it matters so much.” — Shauna Niequist Home Copy Share Image
“What I found, though, is that is you're not chasing one fantasy, you're chasing another.” — Shauna Niequist Chase Copy Share Image
“You get to tell the truth about what you love and who you are and what you dream about. We’ll learn this… — Shauna Niequist Tell Copy Share Image
