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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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I think it was simply word of mouth that made it a New York Times bestseller for more than 60 weeks, over a year. People being moved and changed and transformed by the book [ One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are] and wanting to share that with hurting people all around them.
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When the heart and mind focus on things unseen - that's when there's a visible change in us.
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Sometimes, too often, I don't want to muster the energy. Stress and anxiety seem easier.
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The practice of giving thanks...eucharisteo...this is the way we practice the presence of God, stay present to His presence, and it is always a practice of the eyes. We don't have to change what we see. Only the way we see.
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The true Love Dare. To move into His presence and listen to His love unending and know the grace uncontainable. This is the vault of the miracles. The only thing that can change us, the world, is this- all His love.
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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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Once you have tasted conviction, you can’t bear to keep swallowing complacency.
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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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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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Isn't falling in love always the fullest life?
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When grief is deepest, words are fewest.
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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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Just that maybe … maybe you don’t want to change the story, because you don’t know what a different ending holds.
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Thanksgiving creates abundance.
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God lays down all of His fullness into all the emptiness. I am in Him. He is in me. I embrace God in the moment. I give Him thanks and I bless God and we meet and couldn't I make love to God, making every moment love for Him? To know Him the way Adam knew Eve. Spirit skin to spirit skin.
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The frame of a soul was never made for fame. The frame of a soul was made to serve.
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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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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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Pick up a yardstick to measure your life against anyone else's, and you've just picked up a stick and beaten up your own soul.
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A life contemplating the blessings of Christ becomes a life acting the love of Christ.
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