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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.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Joy
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More important than a clean house is a close family.
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A life contemplating the blessings of Christ becomes a life acting the love of Christ.
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In a world addicted to speed, I blur the moments into one unholy smear.
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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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Because nothing is greater and we have no greater need, God gives God.
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Practice is the hardest part of learning, and training is the essence of transformation.
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Remembering with thanks is what causes us to trust - to really believe.
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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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Being joyful isn't what makes you grateful. Being grateful is what makes you joyful.
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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 don't want a Christmas you can buy. I don't want a Christmas you can make. What I want is a Christmas you can hold. A Christmas that holds me, remakes me, revives me. I want a Christmas that whispers, Jesus.
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All God makes is good. Can it be that that which seems to oppose the will of God actually is used of Him to accomplish the will of God?
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We want clarity -- and God gives a call. We want a road map --- and God gives a relationship. We want answers -- and God gives His hand.
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God is always good and we are always loved... even when what He gives may appear ugly.
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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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Joy is always a function of gratitude - and gratitude is always a function of perspective.
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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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God only allows pain if He’s allowing something new to be born.
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