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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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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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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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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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Poor communication doesn’t disconnect souls. It’s the disconnected souls who poorly communicate.
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Every moment I live, I live bowed to something. And if I don't see God, I'll bow down before something else.
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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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It’s impossible to give thanks and simultaneously feel fear
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God reveals Himself in rearview mirrors. And I've an inkling that there are times when we need to drive a long, long distance, before we can look back and see God's back in the rearview mirror. Maybe sometimes about as far as heaven -- that kind of distance.
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When I fully enter time’s swift current, enter into the current moment with the weight of all my attention, I slow the torrent with the weight of me all here.
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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 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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I only live the full life when I live fully in the moment.
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From all of our beginnings, we keep reliving the Garden story.
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When your ethnicity is heaven, then all adversity offers the gift of intimacy, driving you into the home of His heart.
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All fear is but the notion that God's love ends.
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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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Simplicity is never a matter of circumstances simplicity is a matter of focus. So in the midst of educating and parenting our children, we can't necessarily go ahead and make everything fit into neat, controllable, simple schedules. But the point is, simplicity is: how do we keep our eyes fixed and focused on Christ, no matter where we are?
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I receive grace. And through me, grace could flow on. Like a cycle of water in continuous movement, grace is meant to fall, a rain...again, again, again. I could share the grace, multiply the joy, extend the table of the feast, enlarge the paradise of His presence. I am blessed. I can bless.
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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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When the heart and mind focus on things unseen - that's when there's a visible change in us.
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The message of Christmas is not that we can make peace. Or that we can make love, make light, make gifts, or make this world save itself. The message of Christmas is that this world’s a mess and we can never save ourselves from ourselves and we need a Messiah.
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