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Living radical isn't about where you live - it's about how you love.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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The prayers we weave into the matching of socks, the stirring of oatmeal, the reading of stories, they survive fire.
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Our [people's] very saving is associated with our gratitude. Which follows: if our fall in the garden was ingratitude, then salvation must be intimately related to giving of thanks.
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Poor communication doesn’t disconnect souls. It’s the disconnected souls who poorly communicate.
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Joy is the realest reality, the fullest life, and joy is always given, never grasped. God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: joy.
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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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Be radical about grace and relentless about truth and resolute about holiness.
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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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Gratitude for the seemingly insignificant—a seed—this plants the giant miracle.
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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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The joy of the Lord is your strength and the person of Christ is your unassailable joy - and the battle for joy is nothing less than fighting the good fight of faith.
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Research actually indicates that if you write down what you're grateful for, it increases your happiness by 25 percent. And who doesn't want that? And God's word says (1 Thessalonians 5), Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus. Who doesn't want to know exactly what God's will is for them?
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God is patiently transfiguring all the notes of my life into the song of His Son.
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On the night He was betrayed Jesus broke bread and lifted it up and gave THANKS. If Jesus can give thanks in that, can we not give thanks in all?
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God’s not out to get you - He’s out to give to you.
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Writing is this act of faith - a bit like driving in the fog: you can hardly see just in front of you. But you trust God's leading you and you just write into the space you can see ahead of you.
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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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The Word God wastes nothing and He heals two broken hearts with one story - the reader and the writer.
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You can give up the need to compete in the world- when you accept being complete in Christ.
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As long as thanks is possible, then joy is always possible.
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Worry is the facade of taking action when prayer really is.
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