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The prayers we weave into the matching of socks, the stirring of oatmeal, the reading of stories, they survive fire.

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Be radical about grace and relentless about truth and resolute about holiness.
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Poor communication doesn’t disconnect souls. It’s the disconnected souls who poorly communicate.
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I didn't (and still don't) have comments [in my blog]. It's about simply writing for an audience of One.
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Because One died for me that I might breathe this breath...It's all a gift.
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It's habits that can imprison you and it's habits that can free you. But when thanks to God becomes a habit - so joy in God becomes your life.
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Parenting is about preparing children to get along with each other, to get along with you and without you, and that it's impossible to get along without God.
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You will be most remembered-by what brought you most joy.
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Every moment I live, I live bowed to something. And if I don't see God, I'll bow down before something else.
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Without God’s Word as a lens, the world warps
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[Bill Jensen] shared his extensive publishing background with me, and prayerfully offered to work out a proposal and to see if God opened any publishing doors? I never get over the unexpected ways of God.
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Life is so urgent and necessitates living slow. It's only the amateurs-and that I've been, and it's been ugly-who thinks slow and urgent are contradictory.
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The life that counts blessings discovers its yielding more than it seems.
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From all of our beginnings, we keep reliving the Garden story.
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Like the wind, Grace finds us wherever we are and won't leave us however we were found.
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Manna today or I starve.
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The busyness of your life leaves little room for the source of your life.
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Are stress and worry evidence of a soul too lazy, too undisciplined, to keep gaze fixed on God?
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Worry is belief gone wrong. Because you don't believe that God will get it right. But peace - peace is belief that exhales. Because you believe that God's provision is everywhere - like air.
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That little burning bush that is the signature of the blog - it echoes Elizabeth Barrett Browning's words.
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