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The moment when you are most repelled by a child's behavior, that is your warning light to draw the very closest to that child.

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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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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If trust must be earned, hasn't God unequivocally earned our trust with the bark on the raw wounds, the thorns pressed into the brow, your name on the cracked lips.
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Rejecting joy to stand in solidarity with the suffering doesn't rescue the suffering.
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Sometimes, too often, I don't want to muster the energy. Stress and anxiety seem easier.
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The life that counts blessings discovers its yielding more than it seems.
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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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Like the wind, Grace finds us wherever we are and won't leave us however we were found.
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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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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.
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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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The cynics, they can only speak of the dark, of the obvious, and this is not hard. For all it's supposed sophistication, it's cynicism that's simplistic. In a fallen world, how profound is to see the cracks?
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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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God doesn't want your leftovers. God wants your love overtures, your first-overs, because He is your first love.
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I want a life that makes music - not just practices the piano.
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God reveals Himself in rearview mirrors.
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Praying with eyes wide open is the only way to pray without ceasing.
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You will be most remembered-by what brought you most joy.
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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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