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The frame of a soul was never made for fame. The frame of a soul was made to serve.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Every mountain that every Christian ever faces, the Lord levels with sufficient grace.
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So my blog wasn't about platform but really, it was everything you are not supposed to do in blogging.
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We live in a broken world - and for the life of me I can't get it all right. But Jesus takes all our broken messes and He makes them, by His grace, into a mosaic of grace.
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Grace is the only thing that is ever enough.
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Gratitude for the seemingly insignificant—a seed—this plants the giant miracle.
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Once you have tasted conviction, you can’t bear to keep swallowing complacency.
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Sometimes you don’t know when you’re taking the first step through a door until you’re already inside.
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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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Our [people's] very saving is associated with our gratitude. Which follows: if our fall in the garden was ingratitude, then salvation must be intimately related to giving of thanks.
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Praying with eyes wide open is the only way to pray without ceasing.
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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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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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Maybe the woman who was handed the book [One Thousand Gifts] by a friend the morning before she had an abortion scheduled - and read the book and realized that this pregnancy that she didn't want - perhaps it too could be a gift from God? And then she said showed me the photo of this laughing 5 month old boy.
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I know the theological answers, but do my blood and my pulse?
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I think God calls us to small things, to faithfulness right where we are, to just do the next thing.
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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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The life that counts blessings discovers its yielding more than it seems.
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Who would ever know the greater graces of comfort and perserverance, mercy and forgiveness, patience and courage, if no shadows fell over a life?
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Is the height of my chara joy dependent on the depths of my eucharisteo thanks?
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More important than a clean house is a close family.
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