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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.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Gratitude is at the center of a life of faith. It sounds to simple to be true, but isn't that the sign of all deep truth: so simple we're tempted to dismiss it, and so hard, it is exactly what God uses to change our hard lives.
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The answer to deep anxiety is the deep adoration of God.
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I started blogging in 2004, light years ago on the Web. And I began 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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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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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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Worry is belief gone wrong. Because you don't believe that God will get it right. But peace - peace is belief that exhales. Because you believe that God's provision is everywhere - like air.
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Christian hands never clasp and He doesn't give gifts for gain because a gift can never stop being a gift - it is always meant to be given.
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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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If the Church is a body, and the body is a business, isn't that the same thing as prostitution?
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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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Grace is the only thing that is ever enough.
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Love doesn't necessarily mean bless or agree with, it means sacrifice for and suffer with.
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Gratitude is the most fruitful way of deepening your consciousness that you are a divine choice.
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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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A year after One Thousand Gifts had released, Kathie Lee Gifford of the Today Show, named it one of her favorite things - the gift that will radically change your life. She shared the title with PEOPLE magazine as one of favorite books - quite astonishing for an evangelical Christian book.
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Parenting is about preparing children to get along with each other, to get along with you and without you, and that it's impossible to get along without God.
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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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Thanksgiving creates abundance and the miracle of multiplying happens when I give thanks-take the just one loaf, say it is enough, and give thanks-and He miraculously makes it more than enough.
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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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