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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.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Fullness of joy is discovered only in the emptying of will.
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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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I think God calls us to small things, to faithfulness right where we are, to just do the next thing.
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Until we call attention to the moments of our lives, we miss our lives.
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Every mountain that every Christian ever faces, the Lord levels with sufficient grace.
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It's the greatest compliment when the writer becomes invisible in the whole process.
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The answer to deep anxiety is the deep adoration of God.
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Really, the greatest compliments about a book [One Thousand Gifts] are never about the book, or the author of the book, but about the reader and God and how the pages helped them connect at a deeper level.
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The practice of giving thanks...eucharisteo...this is the way we practice the presence of God, stay present to His presence, and it is always a practice of the eyes. We don't have to change what we see. Only the way we see.
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Satan's sin becomes the first sin of all humanity: the sin of ingratitude. Adam and Eve are, simply, painfully ungrateful for what God gave.
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There are two kinds of doubt: one that fully lives into the questions, and one that uses the questions as weapons against fully living.
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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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Maybe the man who said that his doctor had pulled him off Prozac because One Thousand Gifts and taking the dare to write 1,000 gifts was healing deep places in him and leading him to *experience* joy.
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The message of Christmas is not that we can make peace. Or that we can make love, make light, make gifts, or make this world save itself. The message of Christmas is that this world’s a mess and we can never save ourselves from ourselves and we need a Messiah.
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