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Life is so urgent it necessitates living slow.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Life
Necessitates
Urgent
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Remembering with thanks is what causes us to trust - to really believe.
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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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Joy is always a function of gratitude - and gratitude is always a function of perspective.
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Like the wind, Grace finds us wherever we are and won't leave us however we were found.
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Manna today or I starve.
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I only live the full life when I live fully in the moment.
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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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It’s impossible to give thanks and simultaneously feel fear
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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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Every time I surrender to stress, aren’t I advertising the unreliability of God?
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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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Every breath is a battle between grudgery and gratitude. Give thanks...and you win joy.
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When your ethnicity is heaven, then all adversity offers the gift of intimacy, driving you into the home of His heart.
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Satan’s sin becomes the first sin of all humanity: the sin of ingratitude. Adam and Eve are, simply, painfully, ungrateful for what God gave. Isn’t that the catalyst of all my sins? Our fall was, has always been, and always will be, that we aren’t satisfied in God and what He gives. We hunger for something more, something other.
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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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Really, the greatest compliments about a book [One Thousand Gifts] are never about the book, or the author of the book, but about the reader and God and how the pages helped them connect at a deeper level.
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Every day, with every word, we get to decide: Do we mar the world, or mark the world?
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Any kind of love that lacks the iron of the Cross in it, is anemic love.
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You, who were made by Love, made for love-- be still and know and watch love come down.
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Every moment I live, I live bowed to something. And if I don't see God, I'll bow down before something else.
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