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

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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When the heart and mind focus on things unseen - that's when there's a visible change in us.
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The bravest love is wildly faithful and it falls hard again every morning... It knows what we seek may be found in what we already have... it's grace and fresh gratitude that can make us strong enough to marvel in the seeming monotony of anything... And the happily married have eyes that look long enough to make the familiar new.
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When we lay the soil of our hard lives open to the rain of grace and let joy penetrate our cracked and dry places, let joy soak into our broken skin and deep crevices, life grows. How can this not be the best thing for the world? For us?
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Every time I surrender to stress, aren’t I advertising the unreliability of God?
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Praying with eyes wide open is the only way to pray without ceasing.
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God appoints people who do disappoint - to point to a God who never disappoints.
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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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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 not out to get you - He’s out to give to you.
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Gratitude is the most fruitful way of deepening your consciousness that you are a divine choice.
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This day is not a sieve, losing time. With each passing minute, each passing year, there's this deepening awareness that I am filling, gaining time. We stand on the brink of eternity.
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Real joy is not found in having the best of everything but in trusting that God is making the best of everything.
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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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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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Real Womanhood isn’t a function of becoming a great mother, but of being loved by your Great Father.
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I don't want a Christmas you can buy. I don't want a Christmas you can make. What I want is a Christmas you can hold. A Christmas that holds me, remakes me, revives me. I want a Christmas that whispers, Jesus.
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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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You can give up the need to compete in the world- when you accept being complete in Christ.
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More important than a clean house is a close family.
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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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