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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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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Ugly
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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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Motherhood is a hallowed place because children aren’t commonplace. Co-laboring over the sculpting of souls is a sacred vocation, a humbling privilege. Never forget.
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All fear is but the notion that God's love ends.
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If trust must be earned, hasn't God unequivocally earned our trust with the bark on the raw wounds, the thorns pressed into the brow, your name on the cracked lips.
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I think it was simply word of mouth that made it a New York Timesbestseller for more than 60 weeks, over a year. People being moved and changed and transformed by the book [One Thousand Gifts] and wanting to share that with hurting people all around them.
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Life isn't an emergency. Christ is in charge of every moment of the day nothing catches Him off guard.
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Satan prowls but he’s a lion on a leash
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I fly to Paris and discover how to make love to God.
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I didn't (and still don't) have comments [in my blog]. It's about simply writing for an audience of One.
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Love doesn't necessarily mean bless or agree with, it means sacrifice for and suffer with.
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I started blogging in 2004, light years ago on the Web.
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You were made for the place where your real # passion meets # compassion because there lies your real purpose.
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Faith thanks God in the middle of the story.
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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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Sometimes you don’t know when you’re taking the first step through a door until you’re already inside.
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Our fall is always first a failure to give thanks.
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The brave who focus on all things good and all things beautiful and all things true, even in the small, who give thanks for it and discover joy even in the here and now, they are the change agents who bring fullest light to all the world.
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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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Gratitude is at the center of a life of faith. It sounds to simple to be true, but isn't that the sign of all deep truth: so simple we're tempted to dismiss it, and so hard, it is exactly what God uses to change our hard lives.
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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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