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

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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The brave who focus on all things good and all things beautiful and all things true, even in the small, who give thanks for it and discover joy even in the here and now, they are the change agents who bring fullest light to all the world.
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At the last, this is what will determine a fulfilling, meaningful life, a life that, behind all the facades, every one of us longs to live: gratitude for the blessings that expresses itself by becoming the blessing.
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And when I give thanks for the seemingly microscopic, I make a place for God to grow within me.
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What was intended to harm, God intended it all for good. And no matter what intends to harm you, God's arms have you. You can never be undone.
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Instead of giving someone a piece of your mind, it turns out far better if you give them a piece of your heart.
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The bravest love is wildly faithful and it falls hard again every morning... It knows what we seek may be found in what we already have... it's grace and fresh gratitude that can make us strong enough to marvel in the seeming monotony of anything... And the happily married have eyes that look long enough to make the familiar new.
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I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, in all the days before I die, the moments before I sleep.
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Satan prowls but he’s a lion on a leash
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Isn't falling in love always the fullest life?
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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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God’s purposes are not for me to understand His plans: His plan is for me to understand Who He is.
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Life-changing gratitude does not fasten to a life unless nailed through with one very specific nail at a time.
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There is unwavering peace today when an uncertain tomorrow is trusted to an unchanging God.
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What is time for if not to bless?
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In naming that which is right before me, that which I'd otherwise miss, the invisible becomes visible.
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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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But, someone, please give me—who is born again but still so much in need of being born anew—give me the details of how to live in the waiting cocoon before the forever begins?
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