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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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