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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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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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God gives us time. And who has time for God?
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Girls rival each other. Women revive each other. Girls empale each other. Women empower each other. Girls compare each other. Women champion each other.
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I think God calls us to small things, to faithfulness right where we are, to just do the next thing. 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.
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Real Love truthfully sees the flaws - and still really loves fully.
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Grace is the only thing that is ever enough.
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The frame of a soul was never made for fame. The frame of a soul was made to serve.
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God is patiently transfiguring all the notes of my life into the song of His Son.
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Any kind of love that lacks the iron of the Cross in it, is anemic love.
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Once you have tasted conviction, you can’t bear to keep swallowing complacency.
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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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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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You've got to use the life you've been given to give others life
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Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus.
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You were made for the place where your real # passion meets # compassion because there lies your real purpose.
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Learning slowly to not be so reactionary while inserting verbal gratitude into stressful situations is almost like being healed of mental blindness.
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Love doesn't necessarily mean bless or agree with, it means sacrifice for and suffer with.
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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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The cynics, they can only speak of the dark, of the obvious, and this is not hard. For all it's supposed sophistication, it's cynicism that's simplistic. In a fallen world, how profound is to see the cracks?
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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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Poor communication doesn’t disconnect souls. It’s the disconnected souls who poorly communicate.
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