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God’s not out to get you - He’s out to give to you.

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Isn't falling in love always the fullest life?
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When we lay the soil of our hard lives open to the rain of grace and let joy penetrate our cracked and dry places, let joy soak into our broken skin and deep crevices, life grows. How can this not be the best thing for the world? For us?
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I fly to Paris and discover how to make love to God.
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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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Pick up a yardstick to measure your life against anyone else's, and you've just picked up a stick and beaten up your own soul.
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Remembering with thanks is what causes us to trust - to really believe.
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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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When the heart and mind focus on things unseen - that's when there's a visible change in us.
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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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I know the theological answers, but do my blood and my pulse?
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I receive grace. And through me, grace could flow on. Like a cycle of water in continuous movement, grace is meant to fall, a rain...again, again, again. I could share the grace, multiply the joy, extend the table of the feast, enlarge the paradise of His presence. I am blessed. I can bless.
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In a world addicted to speed, I blur the moments into one unholy smear.
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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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Gratitude is not only a response to God in good times - it's ultimately the very will of God in hard times. Gratitude isn't only a celebration when good things happen. It's a declaration that God is good no matter what happens.
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Where ever you are be all there
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The cynics, they can only speak of the dark, of the obvious, and this is not hard. For all it's supposed sophistication, it's cynicism that's simplistic. In a fallen world, how profound is to see the cracks?
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Until we call attention to the moments of our lives, we miss our lives.
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I think God calls us to small things, to faithfulness right where we are, to just do the next thing.
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Living radical isn't about where you live - it's about how you love.
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As long as thanks is possible, then joy is always possible.
Ann Voskamp