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

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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I want a life that makes music - not just practices the piano.
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God reveals Himself in rearview mirrors. And I've an inkling that there are times when we need to drive a long, long distance, before we can look back and see God's back in the rearview mirror. Maybe sometimes about as far as heaven -- that kind of distance.
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The blog is meant to be a bit of a side chapel - a place to slip into and still and encounter the glory of God - and come away again with a fresh sense that your life, right where you are, is a holy experience - that God dwells with you and in you, and where you are is holy ground, worthy of reverence and celebration and wonder.
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Joy is always a function of gratitude - and gratitude is always a function of perspective.
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At the last, this is what will determine a fulfilling, meaningful life, a life that, behind all the facades, every one of us longs to live: gratitude for the blessings that expresses itself by becoming the blessing.
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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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All fear is but the notion that God's love ends.
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Poor communication doesn’t disconnect souls. It’s the disconnected souls who poorly communicate.
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Manna today or I starve.
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I think it was simply word of mouth that made it a New York Times bestseller for more than 60 weeks, over a year. People being moved and changed and transformed by the book [ One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are] and wanting to share that with hurting people all around them.
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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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The only way to fight a feeling is with a feeling.
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In counting gifts, to one thousand, more, I discover that slapping a sloppy brush of thanksgiving over everything in my life leaves me deeply thankful for very few things in my life.
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The joy of the Lord is your strength and the person of Christ is your unassailable joy - and the battle for joy is nothing less than fighting the good fight of faith.
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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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God doesn't want your leftovers. God wants your love overtures, your first-overs, because He is your first love.
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I hunger for filling in a world that is starved.
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The fear is suffocating, terrorizing, and I want the remedy, and it is trust. Trust is everything.
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When you're most wounded by words run to the only Word that always brings healing.
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We were made to live in a posture of grateful worship, and when we live in praise we live our purpose, and all the pieces fall in place, us all falling down in thanks.
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