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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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Hurry always empties a soul.
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Our fall is always first a failure to give thanks.
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God is always good and we are always loved... even when what He gives may appear ugly.
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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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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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Darkness transfigures into light, bad transfigures into good, grief transfigures into grace, empty transfigures into full. God wastes nothing – ‘makes everything work out according to his plan.’ (Ephesians 1:11).
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Life-changing gratitude does not fasten to a life unless nailed through with one very specific nail at a time.
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There is unwavering peace today when an uncertain tomorrow is trusted to an unchanging God.
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The Word God wastes nothing and He heals two broken hearts with one story - the reader and the writer.
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That little burning bush that is the signature of the blog - it echoes Elizabeth Barrett Browning's words.
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The fear is suffocating, terrorizing, and I want the remedy, and it is trust. Trust is everything.
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The busyness of your life leaves little room for the source of your life.
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But wells don't come without first begging to see the wells wells don't come without first splitting open hard earth, cracking back the lids. There's no seeing God face-to-face without first the ripping.
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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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Kathie Lee [Gifford] invited me to come to New York for lunch with her - and surprised with an unexpected shout out again for One Thousand Gifts on the show and graciously asked a few questions on camera. Indebted to her and the people who read and looked for Jesus in the pages and shared the hope and joy of Him - right where they are.
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What was intended to harm, God intended it all for good. And no matter what intends to harm you, God's arms have you. You can never be undone.
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We're called to do more than believe in God, we're called to live in God.
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I wonder if the greatest challenges was to keep pressing into [writing] when I had never been here before. I felt like Abraham - being called to something that he didn't know how to get to.
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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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