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Practice is the hardest part of learning, and training is the essence of transformation.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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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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A lack of doxology leads to depravity.
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How long does it take your soul to realize that your life is full? The slower the living, the greater the sense of fullness and satisfaction.
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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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Your naked body deserves the honor of being shared only with someone who is covenanted to never stop loving your naked soul.
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Research actually indicates that if you write down what you're grateful for, it increases your happiness by 25 percent. And who doesn't want that? And God's word says (1 Thessalonians 5), Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus. Who doesn't want to know exactly what God's will is for them?
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Joy is the realest reality, the fullest life, and joy is always given, never grasped. God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: joy.
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When we lay the soil of our hard lives open to the rain of grace and let joy penetrate our cracked and dry places, let joy soak into our broken skin and deep crevices, life grows. How can this not be the best thing for the world? For us?
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Holy joy lies in the habit of murmuring thanks to God for the smallest of graces.
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I want a life that makes music - not just practices the piano.
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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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Can God be counted on? Count blessings and find out how many of His bridges have already held.
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We were made to live in a posture of grateful worship, and when we live in praise we live our purpose, and all the pieces fall in place, us all falling down in thanks.
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I am a hunter of beauty and I move slow and I keep the eyes wide, every fiber of every muscle sensing all wonder and this is the thrill of the hunt and I could be an expert on the life full, the beauty meat that lurks in every moment. I hunger to taste life. God.
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Any kind of love that lacks the iron of the Cross in it, is anemic love.
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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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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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Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus.
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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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Praying with eyes wide open is the only way to pray without ceasing.
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