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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 true Love Dare. To move into His presence and listen to His love unending and know the grace uncontainable. This is the vault of the miracles. The only thing that can change us, the world, is this- all His love.
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I am a hunter of beauty and I move slow and I keep the eyes wide, every fiber of every muscle sensing all wonder and this is the thrill of the hunt and I could be an expert on the life full, the beauty meat that lurks in every moment. I hunger to taste life. God.
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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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More important than a clean house is a close family.
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Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus.
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Simplicity is never a matter of circumstances simplicity is a matter of focus. So in the midst of educating and parenting our children, we can't necessarily go ahead and make everything fit into neat, controllable, simple schedules. But the point is, simplicity is: how do we keep our eyes fixed and focused on Christ, no matter where we are?
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I want a life that makes music - not just practices the piano.
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Motherhood is a hallowed place because children aren’t commonplace. Co-laboring over the sculpting of souls is a sacred vocation, a humbling privilege. Never forget.
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Remembering with thanks is what causes us to trust - to really believe.
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Any kind of love that lacks the iron of the Cross in it, is anemic love.
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A life contemplating the blessings of Christ becomes a life acting the love of Christ.
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I hunger for filling in a world that is starved.
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Busy is a choice. Stress is a choice. Joy is a choice. Choose well.
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The fear is suffocating, terrorizing, and I want the remedy, and it is trust. Trust is everything.
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From all of our beginnings, we keep reliving the Garden story.
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Love doesn't necessarily mean bless or agree with, it means sacrifice for and suffer with.
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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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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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We don't see the material world for what it is meant to be: the means to communion with God.... There is a belief missing, that God is good and that he gives good gifts.
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Fullness of joy is discovered only in the emptying of will.
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