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Real joy is not found in having the best of everything but in trusting that God is making the best of everything.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Hurry always empties a soul.
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That which tears open our souls, those holes that splatter our sight, may actually become the thin, open places to see through the mess of this place to the heart-aching beauty beyond. To Him. To the God whom we endlessly crave.
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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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Being joyful isn't what makes you grateful. Being grateful is what makes you joyful.
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There is unwavering peace today when an uncertain tomorrow is trusted to an unchanging God.
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Life is so urgent it necessitates living slow.
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Every day, with every word, we get to decide: Do we mar the world, or mark the world?
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If the Church is a body, and the body is a business, isn't that the same thing as prostitution?
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The true Love Dare. To move into His presence and listen to His love unending and know the grace uncontainable. This is the vault of the miracles. The only thing that can change us, the world, is this- all His love.
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Really good writing, from my perspective, runs a lot like a visual on the screen. You need to create that kind of detail and have credibility with the reader, so the reader knows that you were really there, that you really experienced it, that you know the details. That comes out of seeing.
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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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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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The only way to fight a feeling is with a feeling.
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How long does it take your soul to realize that your life is full? The slower the living, the greater the sense of fullness and satisfaction.
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It’s impossible to give thanks and simultaneously feel fear
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You love as well as you are willing to be inconvenienced.
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We don't see the material world for what it is meant to be: the means to communion with God.... There is a belief missing, that God is good and that he gives good gifts.
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Like the wind, Grace finds us wherever we are and won't leave us however we were found.
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I only live the full life when I live fully in the moment.
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Darkness transfigures into light, bad transfigures into good, grief transfigures into grace, empty transfigures into full. God wastes nothing – ‘makes everything work out according to his plan.’ (Ephesians 1:11).
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