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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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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Mars
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Mark
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Every
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What was intended to harm, God intended it all for good. And no matter what intends to harm you, God's arms have you. You can never be undone.
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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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The busyness of your life leaves little room for the source of your life.
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Joy is always a function of gratitude - and gratitude is always a function of perspective.
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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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When you're most wounded by words run to the only Word that always brings healing.
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When I fully enter time’s swift current, enter into the current moment with the weight of all my attention, I slow the torrent with the weight of me all here.
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Thanksgiving-giving thanks in everything-prepares the way that God might show us His fullest salvation in Christ.
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Gratitude is at the center of a life of faith. It sounds to simple to be true, but isn't that the sign of all deep truth: so simple we're tempted to dismiss it, and so hard, it is exactly what God uses to change our hard lives.
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Every time I surrender to stress, aren’t I advertising the unreliability of God?
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The joy of the Lord is your strength and the person of Christ is your unassailable joy - and the battle for joy is nothing less than fighting the good fight of faith.
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It’s impossible to give thanks and simultaneously feel fear
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Worry is belief gone wrong. Because you don't believe that God will get it right. But peace - peace is belief that exhales. Because you believe that God's provision is everywhere - like air.
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The answer to deep anxiety is the deep adoration of God.
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You love as well as you are willing to be inconvenienced.
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Praying with eyes wide open is the only way to pray without ceasing.
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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.
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Faith thanks God in the middle of the story.
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God doesn't want your leftovers. God wants your love overtures, your first-overs, because He is your first love.
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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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