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The only way to fight a feeling is with a feeling.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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The prayers we weave into the matching of socks, the stirring of oatmeal, the reading of stories, they survive fire.
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Learning slowly to not be so reactionary while inserting verbal gratitude into stressful situations is almost like being healed of mental blindness.
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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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Be radical about grace and relentless about truth and resolute about holiness.
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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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Your naked body deserves the honor of being shared only with someone who is covenanted to never stop loving your naked soul.
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It's habits that can imprison you and it's habits that can free you. But when thanks to God becomes a habit - so joy in God becomes your life.
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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.
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Comparison is a thug that robs your joy. But its even more than that - Comparison makes you a thug who beats down somebody - or your soul.
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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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Girls rival each other. Women revive each other. Girls empale each other. Women empower each other. Girls compare each other. Women champion each other.
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The life that counts blessings discovers its yielding more than it seems.
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Where ever you are be all there
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The greatest compliment of the book [One Thousand Gifts]? Maybe the Muslim man in Iraq who was given the book and came to a saving knowledge of Jesus, wanted to live his life in thanks to God?
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Christian hands never clasp and He doesn't give gifts for gain because a gift can never stop being a gift - it is always meant to be given.
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All God makes is good. Can it be that that which seems to oppose the will of God actually is used of Him to accomplish the will of God?
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Who would ever know the greater graces of comfort and perserverance, mercy and forgiveness, patience and courage, if no shadows fell over a life?
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All fear is but the notion that God's love ends.
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Praying with eyes wide open is the only way to pray without ceasing.
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What is time for if not to bless?
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