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God gives the world enough of what it needs. All He asks is that we distribute what He gives.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Distribute
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Enough
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Sometimes, too often, I don't want to muster the energy. Stress and anxiety seem easier.
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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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Really, the greatest compliments about a book [One Thousand Gifts] are never about the book, or the author of the book, but about the reader and God and how the pages helped them connect at a deeper level.
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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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Joy is always a function of gratitude - and gratitude is always a function of perspective.
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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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I wonder if the greatest challenges was to keep pressing into [writing] when I had never been here before. I felt like Abraham - being called to something that he didn't know how to get to.
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There is a way to live the big of giving thanks in all things. It is this: to give thanks in this one small thing. The moments will add up.
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I think God calls us to small things, to faithfulness right where we are, to just do the next thing.
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God is good and I am always loved.
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Sometimes you don’t know when you’re taking the first step through a door until you’re already inside.
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In a world addicted to speed, I blur the moments into one unholy smear.
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Girls rival each other. Women revive each other. Girls empale each other. Women empower each other. Girls compare each other. Women champion each other.
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Once you have tasted conviction, you can’t bear to keep swallowing complacency.
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Real Womanhood isn’t a function of becoming a great mother, but of being loved by your Great Father.
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Fullness of joy is discovered only in the emptying of will.
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I don't really want more time I just want enough time. Time to breathe deep and time to see real and time to laugh long, time to give You glory and rest deep and sing joy and just enough time in a day not to feel hounded, pressed, driven, or wild to get it all done-yesterday.
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Grace is alive, living waters. If I dam up the grace, hold the blessings tight, joy within dies... waters that have no life.
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Life is so urgent it necessitates living slow.
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I hunger for filling in a world that is starved.
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