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From all of our beginnings, we keep reliving the Garden story.

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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We don't see the material world for what it is meant to be: the means to communion with God.... There is a belief missing, that God is good and that he gives good gifts.
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We only enter into the full life if our faith gives thanks. Because how else do we accept His free gift of salvation if not with thanksgiving? Thanksgiving is the evidence of our acceptance of whatever He gives. Thanksgiving is the manifestation of our Yes! to His grace.
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Be radical about grace and relentless about truth and resolute about holiness.
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The cynics, they can only speak of the dark, of the obvious, and this is not hard. For all it's supposed sophistication, it's cynicism that's simplistic. In a fallen world, how profound is to see the cracks?
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This day is not a sieve, losing time. With each passing minute, each passing year, there's this deepening awareness that I am filling, gaining time. We stand on the brink of eternity.
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Kathie Lee [Gifford] invited me to come to New York for lunch with her - and surprised with an unexpected shout out again for One Thousand Gifts on the show and graciously asked a few questions on camera. Indebted to her and the people who read and looked for Jesus in the pages and shared the hope and joy of Him - right where they are.
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God reveals Himself in rearview mirrors.
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I began [blogging] because I have this handicap - I can't figure out my life or see God clearly unless I untangle my life again with words.
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Comparison is a thug that robs your joy. But its even more than that - Comparison makes you a thug who beats down somebody - or your soul.
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When we know Christ, we always know how things are going to go...always for our good and always for His glory.
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Thanksgiving-giving thanks in everything-prepares the way that God might show us His fullest salvation in Christ.
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We give thanks to God not because of how we feel, but because of Who He is.
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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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I want a life that makes music - not just practices the piano.
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Thanksgiving creates abundance.
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If the Church is a body, and the body is a business, isn't that the same thing as prostitution?
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I wonder if the greatest challenges was to keep pressing into [writing] when I had never been here before. I felt like Abraham - being called to something that he didn't know how to get to.
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When grief is deepest, words are fewest.
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Christian hands never clasp and He doesn't give gifts for gain because a gift can never stop being a gift - it is always meant to be given.
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