Why Her? Quotes

“If we don’t learn to keep comparison struggles in healthy, humble, her-honoring ways, they will never stop messing us up.”
― Nicki Koziarz, Why Her?: 6 Truths We Need to Hear When Measuring Up Leaves Us Falling Behind

“Her Gain Is Not Your Loss”
― Nicki Koziarz, Why Her?: 6 Truths We Need to Hear When Measuring Up Leaves Us Falling Behind

“God, today I’m praying for ____ [insert her name]. I am grateful you have gifted her with the ability to ___ [insert her gift/opportunity]. You are a good God who gives each of us good gifts. I pray that today would be a day of increase with the ability to use those gifts in her life. Help [insert her name] to use her time, resources, and gifts wisely today. Surround her with what she needs most. And bless her greatly. In Jesus’ name, amen.”
― Nicki Koziarz, Why Her?: 6 Truths We Need to Hear When Measuring Up Leaves Us Falling Behind

“We can’t live our lives dependent on the praise of someone else, but we can live our lives daily praising others.”
― Nicki Koziarz, Why Her?: 6 Truths We Need to Hear When Measuring Up Leaves Us Falling Behind

“Thank goodness God is not in the business of fighting for fair. Because if He was, there would be no Jesus. There was nothing fair about Jesus having to die on a cross to save you and me. But He did. Unfairly.”
― Nicki Koziarz, Why Her?: 6 Truths We Need to Hear When Measuring Up Leaves Us Falling Behind

“Comparison can cloud our thinking and cause us to write stories that are not even happening.”
― Nicki Koziarz, Why Her?: 6 Truths We Need to Hear When Measuring Up Leaves Us Falling Behind

“Wisdom helps us move beyond the question, “Why is this happening?” to ask a wiser question: “What can I do about it?”
― Nicki Koziarz, Why Her?: 6 Truths We Need to Hear When Measuring Up Leaves Us Falling Behind

“Freedom means stepping into the middle of your story, changing it not to look like her but to look like what you believe God has envisioned for you.”
― Nicki Koziarz, Why Her?: 6 Truths We Need to Hear When Measuring Up Leaves Us Falling Behind

“We all need success in our lives. But don’t expect your greatness to be defined (or limited!) by what it looks like on others.”
― Nicki Koziarz, Why Her?: 6 Truths We Need to Hear When Measuring Up Leaves Us Falling Behind

“The times when we lack freedom and ask “Why her?” are probably because we’re wrestling with a lack of recognition, notice, or attention. A lack of greatness.”
― Nicki Koziarz, Why Her?: 6 Truths We Need to Hear When Measuring Up Leaves Us Falling Behind

“It’s crucial that I stop turning my life into a performance to be graded in terms of how it compares with others.”
― Nicki Koziarz, Why Her?: 6 Truths We Need to Hear When Measuring Up Leaves Us Falling Behind

“We have to find contentment with who we are without becoming complacent in who we are becoming”
― Nicki Koziarz, Why Her?: 6 Truths We Need to Hear When Measuring Up Leaves Us Falling Behind

“the untangling of our souls always begins in our thoughts.”
― Nicki Koziarz, Why Her?: 6 Truths We Need to Hear When Measuring Up Leaves Us Falling Behind

“Being offended is not a condition inflicted on us. It’s a stance we choose.”
― Nicki Koziarz, Why Her?: 6 Truths We Need to Hear When Measuring Up Leaves Us Falling Behind

“I’ve found the why her questions rarely pop into my mind on nice seventy-degree days when I’m feeling the most confident, happy, and content. But when I’m worn down? When I’m already feeling a little lonely, unsettled, or insecure? That’s when the question is just dangling there in front of me, waiting to be asked.”
― Nicki Koziarz, Why Her?: 6 Truths We Need to Hear When Measuring Up Leaves Us Falling Behind

“we have to trust God so much that if He doesn’t give it to us, we don’t want it.”
― Nicki Koziarz, Why Her?: 6 Truths We Need to Hear When Measuring Up Leaves Us Falling Behind

“When it seems like God is quiet, we need to get quiet.”
― Nicki Koziarz, Why Her?: 6 Truths We Need to Hear When Measuring Up Leaves Us Falling Behind

“God created us with a need for one another. He didn’t give the choir a lifetime assignment of solos.”
― Nicki Koziarz, Why Her?: 6 Truths We Need to Hear When Measuring Up Leaves Us Falling Behind

“Often comparison will use the pain of our past to create problems in our present.”
― Nicki Koziarz, Why Her?: 6 Truths We Need to Hear When Measuring Up Leaves Us Falling Behind

“Exposing our own weakness toward jealousy and allowing God to overcome its damaging effects on us is a significant step in our freedom.”
― Nicki Koziarz, Why Her?: 6 Truths We Need to Hear When Measuring Up Leaves Us Falling Behind

“When circumstances are unfair and our hearts are aching, God is still concerned that we learn to experience His goodness.”
― Nicki Koziarz, Why Her?: 6 Truths We Need to Hear When Measuring Up Leaves Us Falling Behind

“God wants to use us. He wants to bless us. But heaven help us when we start to think of our positions as a way to position someone else.”
― Nicki Koziarz, Why Her?: 6 Truths We Need to Hear When Measuring Up Leaves Us Falling Behind

“Comparison’s disillusionment begins when we believe our winning makes someone else lose.”
― Nicki Koziarz, Why Her?: 6 Truths We Need to Hear When Measuring Up Leaves Us Falling Behind

“Disappointment is inevitable. But God doesn’t want us to settle. He wants us to shift.”
― Nicki Koziarz, Why Her?: 6 Truths We Need to Hear When Measuring Up Leaves Us Falling Behind

“Desiring things isn’t bad, unless our desires become greater than the One who gives desires.”
― Nicki Koziarz, Why Her?: 6 Truths We Need to Hear When Measuring Up Leaves Us Falling Behind

“We need to remember, when looking at people’s lives that appear perfect to us, there’s probably a not-so-perfect story happening there that’s never going to be told.”
― Nicki Koziarz, Why Her?: 6 Truths We Need to Hear When Measuring Up Leaves Us Falling Behind

“Honesty can lead us to quiet places where we seek to understand rather than merely react.”
― Nicki Koziarz, Why Her?: 6 Truths We Need to Hear When Measuring Up Leaves Us Falling Behind

“We often lose who we are while trying to become someone we aren’t.”
― Nicki Koziarz, Why Her?: 6 Truths We Need to Hear When Measuring Up Leaves Us Falling Behind

“Honesty teaches us to stop fearing what we don’t have so we can see what we do.”
― Nicki Koziarz, Why Her?: 6 Truths We Need to Hear When Measuring Up Leaves Us Falling Behind

“Comparison convinces us to chase the many things we can when we can't have the one thing we want.”
― Nicki Koziarz, Why Her?: 6 Truths We Need to Hear When Measuring Up Leaves Us Falling Behind