Shauna Niequist Quotes

• This is how the world changes - little by little, table by table, meal by meal, hour by hour. This is how we chip away at isolation, loneliness, fear. This is how we connect, in big and small ways - we do it around the table.

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  Loneliness, World, Tables

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• Quiero que dejes de correr de una cosa a otra, y te sientes a la mesa, para ofrecer a las personas que quieres algo humilde y nutritivo, como sopa y pan, como una historia, como una mano que sostiene otra mano mientras rezas. Vivimos en un mundo que nos valora por lo rápido que vamos, por lo mucho que logramos, por la cantidad de vida que podemos meter en un día. Pero estoy empezando a creer que es en los espacios intermedios donde nuestras vidas cambian, y que la verdadera belleza reside ahí.

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  Running, Real, Life Changing

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• 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.

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  Team, Love You, Home

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• 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.

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  Beautiful, Epic, Tragedy

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• ...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.

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  People, Walks, Mess

  Shauna Niequist (2013). “Bread and Wine: A Love Letter to Life Around the Table with Recipes”, p.236, Zondervan

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• I want to cultivate a deep sense of gratitude, of groundedness, of enough, even while I'm longing for something more. The longing and the gratitude, both. I'm practicing believing that God knows more than I know, that he sees what I can't, that he's weaving a future I can't even imagine from where I sit this morning.

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  Gratitude, Morning, Believe

  Shauna Niequist (2013). “Bread and Wine: A Love Letter to Life Around the Table with Recipes”, p.50, Zondervan

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• 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.

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  Opportunity, People, Who God Is

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• Quiero una vida que chisporrotee y estalle y me haga reír a carcajadas... Quiero que mi día a día haga reír a Dios, contento de haber dado la vida a alguien que ama ese don.

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  Laughing, Everyday, Want

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• This is it, in the best possible way. That thing I'm waiting for, that adventure, that movie-score-wor thy experience unfolding gracefully. This is it. Normal, daily life ticking by on our streets and sidewalks, in our houses and apartments, in our beds and at our dinner tables, in our dreams and prayers and fights and secrets - this pedestrian life is the most precious thing any of us will ever experience.

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  Dream, Prayer, Adventure

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• There's nothing small or inconsequential about our stories. There is, in fact, nothing bigger. And when we tell the truth about our lives - the broken parts, the secret parts, the beautiful parts - then the gospel comes to life, an actual story about redemption, instead of abstraction and theory and things you learn in Sunday School.

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  Beautiful, School, Sunday

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• There is a season for wildness and a season for settledness, and this is neither. This season is about becoming.

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  Healing, Becoming, Seasons

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• 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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  Dream, Opportunity, Hands

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• La vida nos sorprende de vez en cuando y nos da algo que no sabíamos que queríamos, y enciende en nosotros un amor que ni siquiera sabíamos que existía.

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  Light, Giving, Wanted

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• A todos los escritores secretos, pintores nocturnos, aspirantes a cantantes, artistas caducos y asustados de todo tipo, saquen su pincel, su flauta o sus zapatos de baile. Sacad la cámara, el ordenador o el torno. Hoy, esta noche, después de que los niños estén en la cama o cuando hayas terminado los deberes, o en lugar de un videojuego o una revista más, crea algo, lo que sea.
  Coge aguja e hilo y cose algo particular, honesto y hermoso, porque lo necesitamos. Yo lo necesito.
  Gracias, y sigue adelante.

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  Beautiful, Kids, Artist

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• We don't learn to love each other well in the easy moments. Anyone is good company at a cocktail party. But love is born when we misunderstand one another and make it right, when we cry in the kitchen, when we show up uninvited with magazines and granola bars, in an effort to say, I love you.

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  Party, Love You, Love Is

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• The world is alive, blinking and clicking, winking at us slyly, inviting us to get up and dance to the music that’s been playing since the beginning of time, if you bend all the way down and put your ear to the ground to listen for it.

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  Ears, Alive, World

  Shauna Niequist (2009). “Cold Tangerines: Celebrating the Extraordinary Nature of Everyday Life”, p.8, Zondervan

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• Creo que Dios está haciendo nuevas todas las cosas. Creo que Cristo venció a la muerte y que ese patrón es evidente en toda la vida y la historia: vida de la muerte, agua de una piedra, redención del fracaso, conexión de la alienación. Creo que el sufrimiento forma parte de la narrativa, y que nada realmente bueno se construye cuando todo es fácil.

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  Believe, Water, Suffering

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• Cuando las cosas se desmoronan, los pedazos rotos permiten que entren todo tipo de cosas, y una de ellas es la presencia de Dios.

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  Fall, Broken, Pieces

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• Somebody is looking at you - and someone needs to see you walk this journey of following God's calling.

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  Journey, Needs, Calling

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• I think preparing food and feeding people brings nourishment not only to our bodies but to our spirits. Feeding people is a way of loving them, in the same way that feeding ourselves is a way of honoring our own createdness and fragility.

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  Comida, Pensamiento, Gente

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• Sometimes we have to leave home in order to find out what we left there, and why it matters so much.

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  Home, Order, Matter

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• We sometimes choose the most locked up, dark versions of the story, but what a good friend does is turn on the lights, open the window, and remind us that there are a whole lot of ways to tell the same story.

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  Good Friend, Dark, Light

  Shauna Niequist (2010). “Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way”, p.52, Zondervan

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• 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.

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  Believe, Comfort, World

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• When we do the hard, intimate work of friendship, we bring a little more of the divine into daily life.

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  Littles, Daily Life, Intimate

  Shauna Niequist (2009). “Cold Tangerines: Celebrating the Extraordinary Nature of Everyday Life”, p.40, Zondervan

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• 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.

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  Hours, Made, Minutes

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