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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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On the night He was betrayed Jesus broke bread and lifted it up and gave THANKS. If Jesus can give thanks in that, can we not give thanks in all?
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Because nothing is greater and we have no greater need, God gives God.
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It's the greatest compliment when the writer becomes invisible in the whole process.
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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, who were made by Love, made for love-- be still and know and watch love come down.
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Who would ever know the greater graces of comfort and perserverance, mercy and forgiveness, patience and courage, if no shadows fell over a life?
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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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Satan prowls but he’s a lion on a leash
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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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You can give up the need to compete in the world- when you accept being complete in Christ.
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The answer to deep anxiety is the deep adoration of God.
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Maybe the woman who was handed the book [One Thousand Gifts] by a friend the morning before she had an abortion scheduled - and read the book and realized that this pregnancy that she didn't want - perhaps it too could be a gift from God? And then she said showed me the photo of this laughing 5 month old boy.
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Thanksgiving creates abundance.
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Praying with eyes wide open is the only way to pray without ceasing.
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Grace is the only thing that is ever enough.
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Worry is the facade of taking action when prayer really is.
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What was intended to harm, God intended it all for good. And no matter what intends to harm you, God's arms have you. You can never be undone.
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The bravest love is wildly faithful and it falls hard again every morning... It knows what we seek may be found in what we already have... it's grace and fresh gratitude that can make us strong enough to marvel in the seeming monotony of anything... And the happily married have eyes that look long enough to make the familiar new.
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What if I gave thanks in the trouble, for the trouble, because the trouble is a gift that causes me to turn? What if I loved God not for His goods but for His love itself that is goodness enough?
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