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All fear is but the notion that God's love ends.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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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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Our fall is always first a failure to give thanks.
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Life is so urgent and necessitates living slow. It's only the amateurs-and that I've been, and it's been ugly-who thinks slow and urgent are contradictory.
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When you're most wounded by words run to the only Word that always brings healing.
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Joy is always a function of gratitude - and gratitude is always a function of perspective.
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I was simply writing out our family stories in my online journal, scratching out what I want to remember, what I was wrestling out with God. Unbeknownst to me, two readers of the posts, both published authors, contacted their agent, Bill Jensen, within 24 hours of each other, encouraging him to drop me a line. Which he did.
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The only way to care for the disadvantaged - is to disadvantage yourself -which is guaranteed to turn out for your advantage.
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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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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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We only enter into the full life if our faith gives thanks. Because how else do we accept His free gift of salvation if not with thanksgiving? Thanksgiving is the evidence of our acceptance of whatever He gives. Thanksgiving is the manifestation of our Yes! to His grace.
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Real Love truthfully sees the flaws - and still really loves fully.
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But wells don't come without first begging to see the wells wells don't come without first splitting open hard earth, cracking back the lids. There's no seeing God face-to-face without first the ripping.
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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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