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God appoints people who do disappoint - to point to a God who never disappoints.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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The Word God wastes nothing and He heals two broken hearts with one story - the reader and the writer.
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Holy joy lies in the habit of murmuring thanks to God for the smallest of graces.
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Comparison is a thug that robs your joy. But its even more than that - Comparison makes you a thug who beats down somebody - or your soul.
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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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Living radical isn't about where you live - it's about how you love.
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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.
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When you're most wounded by words run to the only Word that always brings healing.
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Where ever you are be all there
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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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Like the wind, Grace finds us wherever we are and won't leave us however we were found.
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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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Every time I surrender to stress, aren’t I advertising the unreliability of God?
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But wells don't come without first begging to see the wells wells don't come without first splitting open hard earth, cracking back the lids. There's no seeing God face-to-face without first the ripping.
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When your ethnicity is heaven, then all adversity offers the gift of intimacy, driving you into the home of His heart.
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God’s purposes are not for me to understand His plans: His plan is for me to understand Who He is.
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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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