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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.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Dies
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Sink
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God appoints people who do disappoint - to point to a God who never disappoints.
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Real Love truthfully sees the flaws - and still really loves fully.
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Love doesn't necessarily mean bless or agree with, it means sacrifice for and suffer with.
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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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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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A lack of doxology leads to depravity.
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I think it was simply word of mouth that made it a New York Times bestseller for more than 60 weeks, over a year. People being moved and changed and transformed by the book [ One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are] and wanting to share that with hurting people all around them.
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When we fixate on the worst in something, we render ourselves incapable of fixing anything... But attend to the good in something - and we act towards the best in everything.
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Faith thanks God in the middle of the story.
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The Word God wastes nothing and He heals two broken hearts with one story - the reader and the writer.
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Just that maybe … maybe you don’t want to change the story, because you don’t know what a different ending holds.
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Only speak words that make souls stronger -\-\ for once words are spoken, they may be forgiven, but may be not forgotten.
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We want clarity -- and God gives a call. We want a road map --- and God gives a relationship. We want answers -- and God gives His hand.
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