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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.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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The moment when you are most repelled by a child's behavior, that is your warning light to draw the very closest to that child.
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Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus.
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Your naked body deserves the honor of being shared only with someone who is covenanted to never stop loving your naked soul.
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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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I only live the full life when I live fully in the moment.
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Our fall is always first a failure to give thanks.
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Homemaking is about making a home, not about making perfection.
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God’s not out to get you - He’s out to give to you.
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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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I think God calls us to small things, to faithfulness right where we are, to just do the next thing. I was simply writing out our family stories in my online journal, scratching out what I want to remember, what I was wrestling out with God.
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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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Worry is the facade of taking action when prayer really is.
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The brave who focus on all things good and all things beautiful and all things true, even in the small, who give thanks for it and discover joy even in the here and now, they are the change agents who bring fullest light to all the world.
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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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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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Once you have tasted conviction, you can’t bear to keep swallowing complacency.
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Hurry always empties a soul.
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I am a hunter of beauty and I move slow and I keep the eyes wide, every fiber of every muscle sensing all wonder and this is the thrill of the hunt and I could be an expert on the life full, the beauty meat that lurks in every moment. I hunger to taste life. God.
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I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, in all the days before I die, the moments before I sleep.
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