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Real Love truthfully sees the flaws - and still really loves fully.

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Only speak words that make souls stronger -\-\ for once words are spoken, they may be forgiven, but may be not forgotten.
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I don't think of myself as an author. But simply as a grateful child of God. John 3:27 has long been a life verse: A man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven. Any more words will only be solely a gift from Him. I can only faithfully wait.
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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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No one told me that it would all happen at the same hallowed time: Mothering is at once the hardest and the holiest and the happiest.
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Fullness of joy is discovered only in the emptying of will.
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A lack of doxology leads to depravity.
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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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Sometimes you don’t know when you’re taking the first step through a door until you’re already inside.
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If I had the perspective of the whole, perhaps I'd see it? That which seems evil, is it a cloud to bring rain, to bring a greater good to the whole of the world? Who would ever know the greater graces of comfort and perseverance, mercy and forgiveness, patience and courage, if no shadows fell over a life?
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I was simply writing out our family stories in my online journal, scratching out what I want to remember, what I was wrestling out with God. Unbeknownst to me, two readers of the posts, both published authors, contacted their agent, Bill Jensen, within 24 hours of each other, encouraging him to drop me a line. Which he did.
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God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: 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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Pantheism, seeing the natural world as divine, is a very different thing than seeing divine God present in all things
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What is time for if not to bless?
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We all get to choose where we set up the stage of our lives - before the Crowds, the Court, the Congregation, the Critics (inner or otherwise)-- or the Cross of Christ. All except One will assess your performance. Only One will accept you before your performance ... Only in Jesus is there 100% acceptance before even 1% performance.
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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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Being joyful isn't what makes you grateful. Being grateful is what makes you joyful.
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Real Womanhood isn’t a function of becoming a great mother, but of being loved by your Great Father.
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Hurry always empties a soul.
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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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