Quotes by Shauna Niequist

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.

Mess

People

Walks

But our hearts are more elastic than we think, and the work of forgiveness and transformation and growth can do things you can’t even imagine from where you’re standing now.

Growth

Heart

Thinking

But when you realize that the story of your life could be told a thousand different ways, that you could tell it over and over as a tragedy, but you choose to call it an epic, that’s when you start to learn what celebration is. When what you see in front of you is so far outside of what you dreamed, but you have the belief, the boldness, the courage to call it beautiful instead of calling it wrong, that’s celebration.

Beautiful

Epic

Tragedy

Everybody has a home team: It’s the people you call when you get a flat tire or when something terrible happens. It’s the people who, near or far, know everything that’s wrong with you and love you anyways. These are the ones who tell you their secrets, who get themselves a glass of water without asking when they’re at your house. These are the people who cry when you cry. These are your people, your middle-of-the-night, no-matter-what people.

Home

Love You

Team

Grace isn’t about having a second chance; grace is having so many chances that you could use them through all eternity and never come up empty. It’s when you finally realize that the other shoe isn’t going to drop, ever.

Grace

Second Chance

Shoes

I believe that suffering is part of the narrative, and that nothing really good gets built when everything’s easy. I believe that loss and emptiness and confusion often give way to new fullness and wisdom.

Believe

Giving

Loss

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.

Everyday

Laughing

Want

I want you to stop running from thing to thing to thing, and to sit down at the table, to offer the people you love something humble and nourishing, like soup and bread, like a story, like a hand holding another hand while you pray. We live in a world that values us for how fast we go, for how much we accomplish, for how much life we can pack into one day. But I’m coming to believe it’s in the in-between spaces that our lives change, and that the real beauty lies there.

Life Changing

Real

Running

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.

Literature

Spiritual

Stories

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.

Dream

Hands

Opportunity

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Adventure

Artist

Beach

Beautiful

Believe

Calling

Doe

Dream

Epic

Everyday

Firsts

Giving

Grace

Growth

Hands

Heart

Home

Hours

Journey

Kids

Laughing

Leaving

Life Changing

Light

Literature

Loneliness

Longing

Loss

Love Is

Love You

Made

Mess

Minutes

Needs

Night

Opportunity

Party

People

Prayer

Real

Running

School

Second Chance

Shoes

Sometimes

Son

Spiritual

Stories

Sunday

Tables

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Quotes by Shauna Niequist

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.

But our hearts are more elastic than we think, and the work of forgiveness and transformation and growth can do things you can’t even imagine from where you’re standing now.

Grace isn’t about having a second chance; grace is having so many chances that you could use them through all eternity and never come up empty. It’s when you finally realize that the other shoe isn’t going to drop, ever.

I believe that suffering is part of the narrative, and that nothing really good gets built when everything’s easy. I believe that loss and emptiness and confusion often give way to new fullness and wisdom.

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.

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.

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.

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