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You've got to use the life you've been given to give others life

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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The book [ One Thousand Gifts] took just over a year to write, on the fringe hours, early and late, around home educating 6 kids and farming and blogging.
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God only allows pain if He’s allowing something new to be born.
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From all of our beginnings, we keep reliving the Garden story.
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...life change comes when we receive life with thanks and ask for nothing to change.
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The busyness of your life leaves little room for the source of your life.
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Holy joy lies in the habit of murmuring thanks to God for the smallest of graces.
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I was simply writing out our family stories in my online journal, scratching out what I want to remember, what I was wrestling out with God. Unbeknownst to me, two readers of the posts, both published authors, contacted their agent, Bill Jensen, within 24 hours of each other, encouraging him to drop me a line. Which he did.
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Joy and pain, they are but two arteries of the one heart that pumps through all those who don't numb themselves to really living.
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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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Every moment I live, I live bowed to something. And if I don't see God, I'll bow down before something else.
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Grace is the only thing that is ever enough.
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Joy is always a function of gratitude - and gratitude is always a function of perspective.
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Are stress and worry evidence of a soul too lazy, too undisciplined, to keep gaze fixed on God?
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We only enter into the full life if our faith gives thanks. Because how else do we accept His free gift of salvation if not with thanksgiving? Thanksgiving is the evidence of our acceptance of whatever He gives. Thanksgiving is the manifestation of our Yes! to His grace.
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Once you have tasted conviction, you can’t bear to keep swallowing complacency.
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