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Every breath is a battle between grudgery and gratitude. Give thanks...and you win joy.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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[Bill Jensen] shared his extensive publishing background with me, and prayerfully offered to work out a proposal and to see if God opened any publishing doors? I never get over the unexpected ways of God.
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The only way to fight a feeling is with a feeling.
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Gratitude's not a natural posture. The prince of darkness is ultimately a spoiled ingrate, and I've spent most of my life as kin to the fist-shaker.
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Only speak words that make souls stronger -\-\ for once words are spoken, they may be forgiven, but may be not forgotten.
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Once you have tasted conviction, you can’t bear to keep swallowing complacency.
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Only speak words that make souls stronger.
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From all of our beginnings, we keep reliving the Garden story.
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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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Any kind of love that lacks the iron of the Cross in it, is anemic love.
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What if I gave thanks in the trouble, for the trouble, because the trouble is a gift that causes me to turn? What if I loved God not for His goods but for His love itself that is goodness enough?
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When we lay the soil of our hard lives open to the rain of grace and let joy penetrate our cracked and dry places, let joy soak into our broken skin and deep crevices, life grows. How can this not be the best thing for the world? For us?
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When grief is deepest, words are fewest.
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Eucharisteo—thanksgiving—always precedes the miracle.
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When I fully enter time’s swift current, enter into the current moment with the weight of all my attention, I slow the torrent with the weight of me all here.
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Fullness of joy is discovered only in the emptying of will.
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Living radical isn't about where you live - it's about how you love.
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The fear is suffocating, terrorizing, and I want the remedy, and it is trust. Trust is everything.
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We can worship Christ in our sanctuaries and we can pray to God on our knees, but how we treat - or neglect - the person next door, the poor, every human being, this is how we truly speak to Christ and this is how we really treat Jesus.
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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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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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