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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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Eucharisteo—thanksgiving—always precedes the miracle.
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Busy is a choice. Stress is a choice. Joy is a choice. Choose well.
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They say time is money, but that's not true. Time is life. And if I want the fullest life, I need to find fullest time... the busyness of your life leaving little room for the source of your life... God gives us time. And who has time for God? Which makes no sense.
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Going ahead in the midst of the stressful circumstances and giving thanks in that moment - you can't simultaneously feel stress and gratitude at the same time. So as a parent, to go ahead and start to give thanks to God resets the whole family.
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If the Church is a body, and the body is a business, isn't that the same thing as prostitution?
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It's the greatest compliment when the writer becomes invisible in the whole process.
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Joy and pain, they are but two arteries of the one heart that pumps through all those who don't numb themselves to really living.
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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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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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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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When we fixate on the worst in something, we render ourselves incapable of fixing anything... But attend to the good in something - and we act towards the best in everything.
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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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And when I give thanks for the seemingly microscopic, I make a place for God to grow within me.
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Worry is the facade of taking action when prayer really is.
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I think it was simply word of mouth that made it a New York Timesbestseller for more than 60 weeks, over a year. People being moved and changed and transformed by the book [One Thousand Gifts] and wanting to share that with hurting people all around them.
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Until we call attention to the moments of our lives, we miss our lives.
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Really good writing, from my perspective, runs a lot like a visual on the screen. You need to create that kind of detail and have credibility with the reader, so the reader knows that you were really there, that you really experienced it, that you know the details. That comes out of seeing.
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Darkness transfigures into light, bad transfigures into good, grief transfigures into grace, empty transfigures into full. God wastes nothing – ‘makes everything work out according to his plan.’ (Ephesians 1:11).
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I fly to Paris and discover how to make love to God.
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Because nothing is greater and we have no greater need, God gives God.
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