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God doesn't want your leftovers. God wants your love overtures, your first-overs, because He is your first love.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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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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The brave who focus on all things good and all things beautiful and all things true, even in the small, who give thanks for it and discover joy even in the here and now, they are the change agents who bring fullest light to all the world.
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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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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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You were made for the place where your real # passion meets # compassion because there lies your real purpose.
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Homemaking is about making a home, not about making perfection.
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God’s not out to get you - He’s out to give to you.
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Because One died for me that I might breathe this breath...It's all a gift.
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Your naked body deserves the honor of being shared only with someone who is covenanted to never stop loving your naked soul.
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When you're most wounded by words run to the only Word that always brings healing.
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When grief is deepest, words are fewest.
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When we fixate on the worst in something, we render ourselves incapable of fixing anything... But attend to the good in something - and we act towards the best in everything.
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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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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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We give thanks to God not because of how we feel, but because of Who He is.
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A lack of doxology leads to depravity.
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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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God reveals Himself in rearview mirrors. And I've an inkling that there are times when we need to drive a long, long distance, before we can look back and see God's back in the rearview mirror. Maybe sometimes about as far as heaven -- that kind of distance.
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Gratitude for the seemingly insignificant—a seed—this plants the giant miracle.
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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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