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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.

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Maybe the man who said that his doctor had pulled him off Prozac because One Thousand Gifts and taking the dare to write 1,000 gifts was healing deep places in him and leading him to *experience* joy.
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It’s impossible to give thanks and simultaneously feel fear
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Without God’s Word as a lens, the world warps
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You will be most remembered-by what brought you most joy.
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A year after One Thousand Gifts had released, Kathie Lee Gifford of the Today Show, named it one of her favorite things - the gift that will radically change your life. She shared the title with PEOPLE magazine as one of favorite books - quite astonishing for an evangelical Christian book.
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I only live the full life when I live fully in the moment.
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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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Thanksgiving creates abundance and the miracle of multiplying happens when I give thanks-take the just one loaf, say it is enough, and give thanks-and He miraculously makes it more than enough.
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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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The only way to care for the disadvantaged - is to disadvantage yourself -which is guaranteed to turn out for your advantage.
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Every time I surrender to stress, aren’t I advertising the unreliability of God?
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Life-changing gratitude does not fasten to a life unless nailed through with one very specific nail at a time.
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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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Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus.
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This day is not a sieve, losing time. With each passing minute, each passing year, there's this deepening awareness that I am filling, gaining time. We stand on the brink of eternity.
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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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Living radical isn't about where you live - it's about how you love.
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You were made for the place where your real # passion meets # compassion because there lies your real purpose.
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I want a life that makes music - not just practices the piano.
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