Quotes from 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 who God is.
- Shauna Niequist
Somebody is looking at you - and someone needs to see you walk this journey of following God's calling.
- Shauna Niequist
When things fall apart, the broken pieces allow all sorts of things to enter, and one of them is the presence of God.
- Shauna Niequist
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.
- Shauna Niequist
Sometimes we have to leave home in order to find out what we left there, and why it matters so much.
- Shauna Niequist
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.
- Shauna Niequist
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.
- Shauna Niequist
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.
- Shauna Niequist
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.
- Shauna Niequist
In many cases, change is not a function of life's cruelty but instead a function of God's graciousness.
- Shauna Niequist
My life is a story about who God is and what He does in a human heart.
- Shauna Niequist
...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.
- Shauna Niequist