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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.

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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Grace is the only thing that is ever enough.
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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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You love as well as you are willing to be inconvenienced.
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Because nothing is greater and we have no greater need, God gives God.
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Can God be counted on? Count blessings and find out how many of His bridges have already held.
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Sometimes you don’t know when you’re taking the first step through a door until you’re already inside.
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Of asking nothing of the reader - but offering a still, quiet oasis in the cybersphere to go vertical with God. An island of stillness to know that He is God.
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When we know Christ, we always know how things are going to go...always for our good and always for His glory.
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When grief is deepest, words are fewest.
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If I had the perspective of the whole, perhaps I'd see it? That which seems evil, is it a cloud to bring rain, to bring a greater good to the whole of the world? Who would ever know the greater graces of comfort and perseverance, mercy and forgiveness, patience and courage, if no shadows fell over a life?
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The brave who focus on all things good and all things beautiful and all things true, even in the small, who give thanks for it and discover joy even in the here and now, they are the change agents who bring fullest light to all the world.
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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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Real Womanhood isn’t a function of becoming a great mother, but of being loved by your Great Father.
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God only allows pain if He’s allowing something new to be born.
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Our fall is always first a failure to give thanks.
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Praying with eyes wide open is the only way to pray without ceasing.
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I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, in all the days before I die, the moments before I sleep.
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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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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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