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Being joyful isn't what makes you grateful. Being grateful is what makes you joyful.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Gratitude for the seemingly insignificant—a seed—this plants the giant miracle.
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Isn't falling in love always the fullest 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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The greatest compliment of the book [One Thousand Gifts]? Maybe the Muslim man in Iraq who was given the book and came to a saving knowledge of Jesus, wanted to live his life in thanks to God?
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Going ahead in the midst of the stressful circumstances and giving thanks in that moment - you can't simultaneously feel stress and gratitude at the same time. So as a parent, to go ahead and start to give thanks to God resets the whole family.
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God gives us time. And who has time for God?
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Love doesn't necessarily mean bless or agree with, it means sacrifice for and suffer with.
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It’s impossible to give thanks and simultaneously feel fear
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God gives the world enough of what it needs. All He asks is that we distribute what He gives.
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Gratitude's not a natural posture. The prince of darkness is ultimately a spoiled ingrate, and I've spent most of my life as kin to the fist-shaker.
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Real Womanhood isn’t a function of becoming a great mother, but of being loved by your Great Father.
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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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As long as thanks is possible, then joy is always possible.
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Every mountain that every Christian ever faces, the Lord levels with sufficient grace.
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I hunger for filling in a world that is starved.
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You've got to use the life you've been given to give others life
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We can worship Christ in our sanctuaries and we can pray to God on our knees, but how we treat - or neglect - the person next door, the poor, every human being, this is how we truly speak to Christ and this is how we really treat Jesus.
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There is unwavering peace today when an uncertain tomorrow is trusted to an unchanging God.
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We give thanks to God not because of how we feel, but because of Who He is.
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No one told me that it would all happen at the same hallowed time: Mothering is at once the hardest and the holiest and the happiest.
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