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Until we call attention to the moments of our lives, we miss our lives.

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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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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Without God’s Word as a lens, the world warps
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Grace is the only thing that is ever enough.
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No one told me that it would all happen at the same hallowed time: Mothering is at once the hardest and the holiest and the happiest.
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I think God calls us to small things, to faithfulness right where we are, to just do the next thing. 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.
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It's habits that can imprison you and it's habits that can free you. But when thanks to God becomes a habit - so joy in God becomes your life.
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When grief is deepest, words are fewest.
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Homemaking is about making a home, not about making perfection.
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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. Isn’t that the catalyst of all my sins? Our fall was, has always been, and always will be, that we aren’t satisfied in God and what He gives. We hunger for something more, something other.
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The frame of a soul was never made for fame. The frame of a soul was made to serve.
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It's the greatest compliment when the writer becomes invisible in the whole process.
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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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You've got to use the life you've been given to give others life
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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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Because nothing is greater and we have no greater need, God gives God.
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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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A year after One Thousand Gifts had released, Kathie Lee Gifford of the Today Show, named it one of her favorite things - the gift that will radically change your life. She shared the title with PEOPLE magazine as one of favorite books - quite astonishing for an evangelical Christian book.
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Every breath is a battle between grudgery and gratitude. Give thanks...and you win joy.
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Is the height of my chara joy dependent on the depths of my eucharisteo thanks?
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Where ever you are be all there
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