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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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God doesn't want your leftovers. God wants your love overtures, your first-overs, because He is your first love.
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Life is so urgent and necessitates living slow. It's only the amateurs-and that I've been, and it's been ugly-who thinks slow and urgent are contradictory.
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Just that maybe … maybe you don’t want to change the story, because you don’t know what a different ending holds.
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The greatest compliment of the book [One Thousand Gifts]? Maybe the Muslim man in Iraq who was given the book and came to a saving knowledge of Jesus, wanted to live his life in thanks to God?
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God gives us time. And who has time for God?
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God only allows pain if He’s allowing something new to be born.
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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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Life is so urgent it necessitates living slow.
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I don't think of myself as an author. But simply as a grateful child of God. John 3:27 has long been a life verse: A man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven. Any more words will only be solely a gift from Him. I can only faithfully wait.
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The Word God wastes nothing and He heals two broken hearts with one story - the reader and the writer.
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Christian hands never clasp and He doesn't give gifts for gain because a gift can never stop being a gift - it is always meant to be given.
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Can God be counted on? Count blessings and find out how many of His bridges have already held.
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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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Our [people's] very saving is associated with our gratitude. Which follows: if our fall in the garden was ingratitude, then salvation must be intimately related to giving of thanks.
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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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Life isn't an emergency. Christ is in charge of every moment of the day nothing catches Him off guard.
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Remembering with thanks is what causes us to trust - to really believe.
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God is patiently transfiguring all the notes of my life into the song of His Son.
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Praying with eyes wide open is the only way to pray without ceasing.
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Giving thanks is that: making the canyon of pain into a megaphone to proclaim the ultimate goodness of God when Satan and all the world would sneer at us to recant.
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