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I only live the full life when I live fully in the moment.

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Remembering with thanks is what causes us to trust - to really believe.
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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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Kathie Lee [Gifford] invited me to come to New York for lunch with her - and surprised with an unexpected shout out again for One Thousand Gifts on the show and graciously asked a few questions on camera. Indebted to her and the people who read and looked for Jesus in the pages and shared the hope and joy of Him - right where they are.
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Fullness of joy is discovered only in the emptying of will.
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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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The greatest compliment of the book [One Thousand Gifts]? Maybe the Muslim man in Iraq who was given the book and came to a saving knowledge of Jesus, wanted to live his life in thanks to God?
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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. Isn’t that the catalyst of all my sins? Our fall was, has always been, and always will be, that we aren’t satisfied in God and what He gives. We hunger for something more, something other.
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Giving thanks is that: making the canyon of pain into a megaphone to proclaim the ultimate goodness of God when Satan and all the world would sneer at us to recant.
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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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The Word God wastes nothing and He heals two broken hearts with one story - the reader and the writer.
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Just that maybe … maybe you don’t want to change the story, because you don’t know what a different ending holds.
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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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Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus.
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Every time I surrender to stress, aren’t I advertising the unreliability of God?
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Wherever you are, be all there. I have lived the runner, panting ahead in worry, pounding back in regrets, terrified to live in the present, because here-time asks me to do the hardest of all: just open wide and receive.
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What is time for if not to bless?
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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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More important than a clean house is a close family.
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God is always good and we are always loved... even when what He gives may appear ugly.
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Joy is always a function of gratitude - and gratitude is always a function of perspective.
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