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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.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Slow
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But, someone, please give me—who is born again but still so much in need of being born anew—give me the details of how to live in the waiting cocoon before the forever begins?
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God gives the world enough of what it needs. All He asks is that we distribute what He gives.
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God’s purposes are not for me to understand His plans: His plan is for me to understand Who He is.
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Once you have tasted conviction, you can’t bear to keep swallowing complacency.
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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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In a storm of struggles, I have tried to control the elements, clasp the fist tight so as to protect self and happiness. But stress can be an addiction, and worry can be our lunge for control, and we forget the answer to this moment is always yes because of Christ.
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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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Only speak words that make souls stronger.
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Love comes softly, it cannot be forced...cannot bear the weight of our expectations. Love always comes in the surrender - in the falling.
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I began [blogging] because I have this handicap - I can't figure out my life or see God clearly unless I untangle my life again with words.
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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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That which tears open our souls, those holes that splatter our sight, may actually become the thin, open places to see through the mess of this place to the heart-aching beauty beyond. To Him. To the God whom we endlessly crave.
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Grace is the only thing that is ever enough.
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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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They say time is money, but that's not true. Time is life. And if I want the fullest life, I need to find fullest time... the busyness of your life leaving little room for the source of your life... God gives us time. And who has time for God? Which makes no sense.
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That little burning bush that is the signature of the blog - it echoes Elizabeth Barrett Browning's words.
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In our rushing, bulls in china shops, we break our own lives.
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You love as well as you are willing to be inconvenienced.
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Every day, with every word, we get to decide: Do we mar the world, or mark the world?
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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. Isn’t that the catalyst of all my sins? Our fall was, has always been, and always will be, that we aren’t satisfied in God and what He gives. We hunger for something more, something other.
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