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A life contemplating the blessings of Christ becomes a life acting the love of Christ.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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You've got to use the life you've been given to give others life
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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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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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It's the greatest compliment when the writer becomes invisible in the whole process.
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The whole of the life -- even the hard -- is made up of the minute parts, and if I miss the infinitesimals, I miss the whole. These are new language lessons, and I live them out. There is a way to live the big of giving thanks in all things. It is this: to give thanks in this one small thing. The moments will add up.
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How do I wake up to joy and grace and beauty and all that is the fullest life when I must stay numb to losses and crushed dreams and all that empties me out?
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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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Pick up a yardstick to measure your life against anyone else's, and you've just picked up a stick and beaten up your own soul.
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In a world addicted to speed, I blur the moments into one unholy smear.
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There are two kinds of doubt: one that fully lives into the questions, and one that uses the questions as weapons against fully living.
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What is time for if not to bless?
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I think God calls us to small things, to faithfulness right where we are, to just do the next thing.
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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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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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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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The Word God wastes nothing and He heals two broken hearts with one story - the reader and the writer.
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Our fall is always first a failure to give thanks.
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Maybe the man who said that his doctor had pulled him off Prozac because One Thousand Gifts and taking the dare to write 1,000 gifts was healing deep places in him and leading him to *experience* joy.
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Any kind of love that lacks the iron of the Cross in it, is anemic love.
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