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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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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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It's habits that can imprison you and it's habits that can free you. But when thanks to God becomes a habit - so joy in God becomes your life.
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I hunger for filling in a world that is starved.
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Practice is the hardest part of learning, and training is the essence of transformation.
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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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In naming that which is right before me, that which I'd otherwise miss, the invisible becomes visible.
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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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Losses do that. One life-loss can infect the whole of a life. Like a rash that wears through our days, our sight becomes peppered with black voids. Now everywhere we look, we only see all that isn’t: holes, lack, deficiency.
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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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Giving thanks is that: making the canyon of pain into a megaphone to proclaim the ultimate goodness of God when Satan and all the world would sneer at us to recant.
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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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Because One died for me that I might breathe this breath...It's all a gift.
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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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God gives us time. And who has time for God?
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Learning slowly to not be so reactionary while inserting verbal gratitude into stressful situations is almost like being healed of mental blindness.
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How do I wake up to joy and grace and beauty and all that is the fullest life when I must stay numb to losses and crushed dreams and all that empties me out?
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Grace is the only thing that is ever enough.
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Real Love truthfully sees the flaws - and still really loves fully.
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We don't see the material world for what it is meant to be: the means to communion with God.... There is a belief missing, that God is good and that he gives good gifts.
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Life is so urgent and necessitates living slow. It's only the amateurs-and that I've been, and it's been ugly-who thinks slow and urgent are contradictory.
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