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You were made for the place where your real # passion meets # compassion because there lies your real purpose.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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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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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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Of asking nothing of the reader - but offering a still, quiet oasis in the cybersphere to go vertical with God. An island of stillness to know that He is God.
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Instead of giving someone a piece of your mind, it turns out far better if you give them a piece of your heart.
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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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Busy is a choice. Stress is a choice. Joy is a choice. Choose well.
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Thanksgiving creates abundance.
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There are two kinds of doubt: one that fully lives into the questions, and one that uses the questions as weapons against fully living.
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How long does it take your soul to realize that your life is full? The slower the living, the greater the sense of fullness and satisfaction.
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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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Love doesn't necessarily mean bless or agree with, it means sacrifice for and suffer with.
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Like the wind, Grace finds us wherever we are and won't leave us however we were found.
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The only way to care for the disadvantaged - is to disadvantage yourself -which is guaranteed to turn out for your advantage.
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God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: joy.
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The book [ One Thousand Gifts] took just over a year to write, on the fringe hours, early and late, around home educating 6 kids and farming and blogging.
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Real joy is not found in having the best of everything but in trusting that God is making the best of everything.
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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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If the Church is a body, and the body is a business, isn't that the same thing as prostitution?
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Satan’s sin becomes the first sin of all humanity: the sin of ingratitude. Adam and Eve are, simply, painfully, ungrateful for what God gave. Isn’t that the catalyst of all my sins? Our fall was, has always been, and always will be, that we aren’t satisfied in God and what He gives. We hunger for something more, something other.
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Poor communication doesn’t disconnect souls. It’s the disconnected souls who poorly communicate.
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