Josh Nadeau > Quotes

“The verb of my life was “to become” and the “what” was a Saint. But it’s the -ing that matters, the actions expressed. And therein lies all the beauty — the Beauty of Becoming. That’s what I needed to capture and cultivate in my life: a vision for the beauty of the process.”
― Josh Nadeau, Room for Good Things to Run Wild: How Ordinary People Become Every Day Saints

“That’s the Real Christian view: that God made everything Good, and everything, as it reflects Him, reflects aspects of that Goodness; everything that is Beautiful finds its fulfillment in Him, and so, too, for Love and Truth.”
― Josh Nadeau, Room for Good Things to Run Wild: How Ordinary People Become Every Day Saints

“I wanted Him, and settled for so much less. He is the Source of all the Beauty I longed for, the Author of Goodness, the Genesis of all that which is True.”
― Josh Nadeau, Room for Good Things to Run Wild: How Ordinary People Become Every Day Saints

“I had to be all in; and I decided then that I would not settle for anything less than *becoming* a Saint. That is who I was called to be, an image, or reflection, of Jesus, who was relentlessly about His Father’s work. I needed to develop the same heart and soul and mind and strength.”
― Josh Nadeau, Room for Good Things to Run Wild: How Ordinary People Become Every Day Saints

“All we need is our context, our situation, our community. Everyone around us, every moment of our lives, is the Kingdom plan of Jesus — places where we, and only we, have the opportunity to make manifest His Reality.”
― Josh Nadeau, Room for Good Things to Run Wild: How Ordinary People Become Every Day Saints

“Jesus is the Source of Beauty, and He expresses it with infinite creativity.”
― Josh Nadeau, Room for Good Things to Run Wild: How Ordinary People Become Every Day Saints

“God was not a rival to my freedom. He wanted me to have it to the full.”
― Josh Nadeau, Room for Good Things to Run Wild: How Ordinary People Become Every Day Saints

“What I didn’t know then, and what I know now, is that some things can only be learned on the itinerary of Time. We cannot grow a tree in a moment of passion, and the pathway through the Valley of the Shadow of Death has no signposts; there is no map. We must follow our Guide.”
― Josh Nadeau, Room for Good Things to Run Wild: How Ordinary People Become Every Day Saints

“And our bodies teach us this, that we cannot understand ourselves in isolation. We can’t see the back of our own head, and so if we want to understand our whole person, we need another. We need the clear sight of community.”
― Josh Nadeau, Room for Good Things to Run Wild: How Ordinary People Become Every Day Saints

“Truth is about a unity and harmony with Jesus, about how God views and understands the world.”
― Josh Nadeau, Room for Good Things to Run Wild: How Ordinary People Become Every Day Saints

“That’s what changes us, what reorients broken and defective outlooks; we cannot be reasoned out of that which we were not reasoned into, but we can fall in Love again. We can behold, and so be transformed.”
― Josh Nadeau, Room for Good Things to Run Wild: How Ordinary People Become Every Day Saints

“Giving up is easy, making excuses is painless, but to endure? That’s where the Life lies.”
― Josh Nadeau, Room for Good Things to Run Wild: How Ordinary People Become Every Day Saints

“We don’t know God by mere fact. We need to see Him, experience Him, enjoy Him. Not just in our heads but with our whole selves, body included.”
― Josh Nadeau, Room for Good Things to Run Wild: How Ordinary People Become Every Day Saints

“The Incarnation, God embodied, is a revealing of the sacredness of the body, of its true purpose — to make visible the invisible, to make manifest all the Eternal Reality, to sing of the Hidden Music. The Architecture of Incarnation.”
― Josh Nadeau, Room for Good Things to Run Wild: How Ordinary People Become Every Day Saints

“I’m asking you to see things afresh — the way things were always intended to be seen. As Big. As Wonderful. As teeming with Life. To gain a vision for the Beauty of *your* every day.”
― Josh Nadeau, Room for Good Things to Run Wild: How Ordinary People Become Every Day Saints

“The invitation is to use *place,* to use where we exist in a family, a church, a job, a school — everything — and to know that through you God intends to reveal Himself, to make the invisible visible.”
― Josh Nadeau, Room for Good Things to Run Wild: How Ordinary People Become Every Day Saints

“I had to let go, I had to surrender. A kind of relinquishing, the giving up of all the things I had used to keep me in control of my life.”
― Josh Nadeau, Room for Good Things to Run Wild: How Ordinary People Become Every Day Saints

“But you must listen and pay attention to all the ways in which God is speaking to you, beckoning you further up and further in. And you must have courage to take every step necessary.”
― Josh Nadeau, Room for Good Things to Run Wild: How Ordinary People Become Every Day Saints