But our hearts are more elastic than we think, and the work of forgiveness and transformation and growth can do things you… — Shauna Niequist Can do Copy Share Image
“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 Chance Copy Share Image
“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 Bars Copy Share Image
I believe still today what I have always believed: that God is good, that the world He made is extraordinary, and that… — Shauna Niequist Always believe Copy Share Image
“I've spent most of my life and most of my friendships holding my breath and hoping that when people get close enough… — Shauna Niequist Anxiety Copy Share Image
“As I unravel the many things that brought me to this crisis point, one is undeniably my own belief that hard work… — Shauna Niequist Hard work 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 Listen Copy Share Image
...what I can do is offer myself, wholehearted and present, to walk with the people I love through the fear and the… — Shauna Niequist Can do Copy Share Image
“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 Away 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 Last supper Copy Share Image
“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 Brothers and sisters Copy Share Image
“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 Bigger picture Copy Share Image
“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 Communion Copy Share Image
I want you to stop running from thing to thing to thing, and to sit down at the table, to offer the… — Shauna Niequist Accomplish Copy Share Image
“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 Adventure Copy Share Image
“In a thousand ways, you live by the sword and you die by the sword. When you allow other people to determine… — Shauna Niequist Sword Copy Share Image
“You can use whatever term you want: besetting sin, shadow side, strength and weakness. The very thing that makes you you, that… — Shauna Niequist Lust Copy Share Image
“There are times when the actual experience of leaving something makes you wish desperately that you could stay, and then there are… — Shauna Niequist Experiences Copy Share Image
“There is a season for wildness and a season for settledness, and this is neither. This season is about becoming. Don't lose… — Shauna Niequist Becoming Copy Share Image
“I have also long held the belief that one's tears are a guide, that when something makes you cry, it means something.… — Shauna Niequist Attention Copy Share Image
“I don’t want to get to the end of my life and look back and realize that the best thing about me… — Shauna Niequist Best thing Copy Share Image
“You want me to say that when you grow, finally, all the changes will stop, but they don't. There will be another… — Shauna Niequist Another opportunity Copy Share Image
“My regrets: how many years I bruised people with my fragmented, anxious presence. How many moments of connection I missed - too… — Shauna Niequist Fragmented Copy Share Image
“Brave doesn't always involve grand gestures, sometimes brave looks like staying when you want to leave, telling the truth when all you… — Shauna Niequist Brave Copy Share Image
“The heart of hospitality is about creating space for someone to feel seen and heard and loved. It's about declaring your table… — Shauna Niequist Hospitality Copy Share Image
“When you're (traveling) with someone else, you share each discovery, but when you are alone, you have to carry each experience with… — Shauna Niequist Discovery Copy Share Image
“...when I've practiced acceptance, when I've floated instead of fought, when I've rested, even for a moment, on the surface instead of… — Shauna Niequist Acceptance Copy Share Image
“We sometimes choose the most locked up, dark versions of the story, but what a good friend does is turn on the… — Shauna Niequist Dark Copy Share Image
“I hate that for a season, no had to be the answer to almost everything. But over time, when you rebuild a… — Shauna Niequist Inspirational-living Copy Share Image
“We travel because I want my kids to learn, as I learned, that there are a million ways to live, a million… — Shauna Niequist Travel Copy Share Image
“Christians have made too much out of work in the same way that Americans have begun engaging in yoga competitions—twisted-up versions of… — Shauna Niequist Christianity Copy Share Image
“I don't always change my clothes just because I'm leaving the house. I wear yoga pants 99 percent of the time, and… — Shauna Niequist Humor Copy Share Image
“Just because you have the capacity to do something doesn’t mean you have to do it. Management, organization, speaking and traveling: you… — Shauna Niequist Fruit Copy Share Image
“But if you can find it within yourself, in the wildest of seasons, just for a moment, to trust in the goodness… — Shauna Niequist Goodness of god Copy Share Image
“Try to keep your soul always in peace and quiet, always ready for whatever our Lord may wish to work in you.… — Shauna Niequist Different places Copy Share Image
“...now that I am a mother, I understand what Mother's Day is about: it's about looking through our lives and recognizing the… — Shauna Niequist Mother Copy Share Image
“People called me tough. And capable. And they said I was someone they could count on. Those are all nice things. Kind… — Shauna Niequist Capable Copy Share Image
“Life hands us opportunities at every turn to get over ourselves, to get outside ourselves, to wake up from our own bad… — Shauna Niequist Bad dream Copy Share Image
“I believe that suffering is part of the narrative, and that nothing really good gets built when everything's easy. I believe that… — Shauna Niequist Believe Copy Share Image
This is how the world changes - little by little, table by table, meal by meal, hour by hour. This is how… — Shauna Niequist Bigs Copy Share Image
