“Words that I’m choosing in this season: passion, connection, meaning, love, grace, spirit.” — Shauna Niequist Grace 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 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
“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 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
“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
“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 Copy Share Image
“I'm a reader and a storyteller, and God chose literature and story and poetry as the languages of my spiritual text. To… — Shauna Niequist Bible Copy Share Image
“It's easy to be liked by strangers. It's very hard to be loved and connected to the people in your home when… — Shauna Niequist Christian living Copy Share Image
“The snow is only meant, created, commanded to fall. The rain is only meant, created, commanded to pour down. You were only… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
“it is better to be loved than admired. It is better to be truly known and seen and taken care of by… — Shauna Niequist 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 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 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
“How often have you found yourself truly moved to change, to choose a better path or make something right, because someone on… — Shauna Niequist Change Copy Share Image
“I tried all the outside ways first—I imagined the changes I needed to make were about time management, or perhaps having the… — Shauna Niequist Change Copy Share Image
“Nothing good comes easily. You have to lose things you thought you loved, give up things you thought you needed. You have… — Shauna Niequist Las vegas Copy Share Image
“To all the secret writers, late-night painters, would-be singers, lapsed and scared artists of every stripe, dig out your paintbrush, or your… — Shauna Niequist Art Copy Share Image
“Some of being an adult, though, is about protecting and preserving what we discover to be the best parts of ourselves, and… — Shauna Niequist Adolescence Copy Share Image
“Now we’re talking about celebration. Celebration when you think you’re calling the shots? Easy. Celebration when your plan is working? Anyone can… — Shauna Niequist Celebration Copy Share Image
“Use what you have, use what the world gives you. Use the first day of fall: bright flame before winter's deadness; harvest;… — Shauna Niequist 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 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
“I want a life that sizzles and pops and makes me laugh out loud. And I don't want to get to the… — Shauna Niequist Dirty dishes 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
“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
“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
“What I found, though, is that is you're not chasing one fantasy, you're chasing another.” — Shauna Niequist 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 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 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
In many cases, change is not a function of life's cruelty but instead a function of God's graciousness. — Shauna Niequist 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 Copy Share Image
“what people think about you means nothing in comparison to what you believe about yourself.” — Shauna Niequist 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
