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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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We were made to live in a posture of grateful worship, and when we live in praise we live our purpose, and all the pieces fall in place, us all falling down in thanks.
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Every breath is a battle between grudgery and gratitude. Give thanks...and you win joy.
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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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Joy and pain, they are but two arteries of the one heart that pumps through all those who don't numb themselves to really living.
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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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Faith thanks God in the middle of the story.
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At the last, this is what will determine a fulfilling, meaningful life, a life that, behind all the facades, every one of us longs to live: gratitude for the blessings that expresses itself by becoming the blessing.
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Is the height of my chara joy dependent on the depths of my eucharisteo thanks?
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They say time is money, but that's not true. Time is life. And if I want the fullest life, I need to find fullest time... the busyness of your life leaving little room for the source of your life... God gives us time. And who has time for God? Which makes no sense.
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Of asking nothing of the reader - but offering a still, quiet oasis in the cybersphere to go vertical with God. An island of stillness to know that He is God.
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In naming that which is right before me, that which I'd otherwise miss, the invisible becomes visible.
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I began [blogging] because I have this handicap - I can't figure out my life or see God clearly unless I untangle my life again with words.
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Gratitude's not a natural posture. The prince of darkness is ultimately a spoiled ingrate, and I've spent most of my life as kin to the fist-shaker.
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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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Your naked body deserves the honor of being shared only with someone who is covenanted to never stop loving your naked soul.
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It's the greatest compliment when the writer becomes invisible in the whole process.
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Rejecting joy to stand in solidarity with the suffering doesn't rescue the suffering.
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How do I wake up to joy and grace and beauty and all that is the fullest life when I must stay numb to losses and crushed dreams and all that empties me out?
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Christian hands never clasp and He doesn't give gifts for gain because a gift can never stop being a gift - it is always meant to be given.
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Be radical about grace and relentless about truth and resolute about holiness.
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