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Stress isn't only a joy stealer. The way we respond to it can be sin.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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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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Practice is the hardest part of learning, and training is the essence of transformation.
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I don't think of myself as an author. But simply as a grateful child of God. John 3:27 has long been a life verse: A man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven. Any more words will only be solely a gift from Him. I can only faithfully wait.
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The joy of the Lord is your strength and the person of Christ is your unassailable joy - and the battle for joy is nothing less than fighting the good fight of faith.
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Simplicity is never a matter of circumstances simplicity is a matter of focus. So in the midst of educating and parenting our children, we can't necessarily go ahead and make everything fit into neat, controllable, simple schedules. But the point is, simplicity is: how do we keep our eyes fixed and focused on Christ, no matter where we are?
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The answer to deep anxiety is the deep adoration of God.
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More important than a clean house is a close family.
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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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Joy and pain, they are but two arteries of the one heart that pumps through all those who don't numb themselves to really living.
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We're called to do more than believe in God, we're called to live in God.
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The message of Christmas is not that we can make peace. Or that we can make love, make light, make gifts, or make this world save itself. The message of Christmas is that this world’s a mess and we can never save ourselves from ourselves and we need a Messiah.
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No one told me that it would all happen at the same hallowed time: Mothering is at once the hardest and the holiest and the happiest.
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God lays down all of His fullness into all the emptiness. I am in Him. He is in me. I embrace God in the moment. I give Him thanks and I bless God and we meet and couldn't I make love to God, making every moment love for Him? To know Him the way Adam knew Eve. Spirit skin to spirit skin.
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God gives us time. And who has time for God?
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Real joy is not found in having the best of everything but in trusting that God is making the best of everything.
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When you're most wounded by words run to the only Word that always brings healing.
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Lament is a cry of belief in a good God, a God who has His ear to our hearts, a God who transfigures the ugly into beauty. Complaint is the bitter howl of unbelief in any benevolent God in this moment, a distrust in the love-beat of the Father's heart.
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Because One died for me that I might breathe this breath...It's all a gift.
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I know the theological answers, but do my blood and my pulse?
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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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