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We're called to do more than believe in God, we're called to live in God.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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In a world addicted to speed, I blur the moments into one unholy smear.
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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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Any kind of love that lacks the iron of the Cross in it, is anemic love.
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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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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 only allows pain if He’s allowing something new to be born.
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When we fixate on the worst in something, we render ourselves incapable of fixing anything... But attend to the good in something - and we act towards the best in everything.
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God appoints people who do disappoint - to point to a God who never disappoints.
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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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Gratitude for the seemingly insignificant—a seed—this plants the giant miracle.
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God gives us time. And who has time for God?
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Is the height of my chara joy dependent on the depths of my eucharisteo thanks?
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That little burning bush that is the signature of the blog - it echoes Elizabeth Barrett Browning's words.
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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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So my blog wasn't about platform but really, it was everything you are not supposed to do in blogging.
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Joy and pain, they are but two arteries of the one heart that pumps through all those who don't numb themselves to really living.
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There are two kinds of doubt: one that fully lives into the questions, and one that uses the questions as weapons against fully living.
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Life-changing gratitude does not fasten to a life unless nailed through with one very specific nail at a time.
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Comparison is a thug that robs your joy. But its even more than that - Comparison makes you a thug who beats down somebody - or your soul.
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You've got to use the life you've been given to give others life
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