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God only allows pain if He’s allowing something new to be born.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Life is so urgent it necessitates living slow.
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Every time I surrender to stress, aren’t I advertising the unreliability of God?
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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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If I had the perspective of the whole, perhaps I'd see it? That which seems evil, is it a cloud to bring rain, to bring a greater good to the whole of the world? Who would ever know the greater graces of comfort and perseverance, mercy and forgiveness, patience and courage, if no shadows fell over a life?
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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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Gratitude for the seemingly insignificant—a seed—this plants the giant miracle.
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