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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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We were made to live in a posture of grateful worship, and when we live in praise we live our purpose, and all the pieces fall in place, us all falling down in thanks.
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There is unwavering peace today when an uncertain tomorrow is trusted to an unchanging God.
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Satan's sin becomes the first sin of all humanity: the sin of ingratitude. Adam and Eve are, simply, painfully ungrateful for what God gave.
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Pantheism, seeing the natural world as divine, is a very different thing than seeing divine God present in all things
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Eucharisteo—thanksgiving—always precedes the miracle.
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The message of Christmas is not that we can make peace. Or that we can make love, make light, make gifts, or make this world save itself. The message of Christmas is that this world’s a mess and we can never save ourselves from ourselves and we need a Messiah.
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How do I wake up to joy and grace and beauty and all that is the fullest life when I must stay numb to losses and crushed dreams and all that empties me out?
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When your ethnicity is heaven, then all adversity offers the gift of intimacy, driving you into the home of His heart.
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What is time for if not to bless?
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Any kind of love that lacks the iron of the Cross in it, is anemic love.
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I fly to Paris and discover how to make love to God.
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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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God only allows pain if He’s allowing something new to be born.
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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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Gratitude for the seemingly insignificant—a seed—this plants the giant miracle.
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No one told me that it would all happen at the same hallowed time: Mothering is at once the hardest and the holiest and the happiest.
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