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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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That little burning bush that is the signature of the blog - it echoes Elizabeth Barrett Browning's words.
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Satan prowls but he’s a lion on a leash
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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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Our fall was, has always been, and always will be, that we aren’t satisfied in God and what He gives. We hunger for something more, something other.
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You've got to use the life you've been given to give others life
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I started blogging in 2004, light years ago on the Web. And I began because I have this handicap - I can't figure out my life or see God clearly unless I untangle my life again with words.
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As long as thanks is possible, then joy is always possible.
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Holy joy lies in the habit of murmuring thanks to God for the smallest of graces.
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Because One died for me that I might breathe this breath...It's all a gift.
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Gratitude's not a natural posture. The prince of darkness is ultimately a spoiled ingrate, and I've spent most of my life as kin to the fist-shaker.
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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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The answer to deep anxiety is the deep adoration of God.
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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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God gives the world enough of what it needs. All He asks is that we distribute what He gives.
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Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus.
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All fear is but the notion that God's love ends.
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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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Lament is a cry of belief in a good God, a God who has His ear to our hearts, a God who transfigures the ugly into beauty. Complaint is the bitter howl of unbelief in any benevolent God in this moment, a distrust in the love-beat of the Father's heart.
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I receive grace. And through me, grace could flow on. Like a cycle of water in continuous movement, grace is meant to fall, a rain...again, again, again. I could share the grace, multiply the joy, extend the table of the feast, enlarge the paradise of His presence. I am blessed. I can bless.
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I didn't (and still don't) have comments [in my blog]. It's about simply writing for an audience of One.
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