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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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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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The only way to care for the disadvantaged - is to disadvantage yourself -which is guaranteed to turn out for your advantage.
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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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You will be most remembered-by what brought you most joy.
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We all get to choose where we set up the stage of our lives - before the Crowds, the Court, the Congregation, the Critics (inner or otherwise)-- or the Cross of Christ. All except One will assess your performance. Only One will accept you before your performance ... Only in Jesus is there 100% acceptance before even 1% performance.
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I don't really want more time I just want enough time. Time to breathe deep and time to see real and time to laugh long, time to give You glory and rest deep and sing joy and just enough time in a day not to feel hounded, pressed, driven, or wild to get it all done-yesterday.
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The answer to deep anxiety is the deep adoration of God.
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Holy joy lies in the habit of murmuring thanks to God for the smallest of graces.
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There is a way to live the big of giving thanks in all things. It is this: to give thanks in this one small thing. The moments will add up.
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Parenting is about preparing children to get along with each other, to get along with you and without you, and that it's impossible to get along without God.
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Maybe the man who said that his doctor had pulled him off Prozac because One Thousand Gifts and taking the dare to write 1,000 gifts was healing deep places in him and leading him to *experience* joy.
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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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There is unwavering peace today when an uncertain tomorrow is trusted to an unchanging God.
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In our rushing, bulls in china shops, we break our own lives.
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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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Gratitude is not only a response to God in good times - it's ultimately the very will of God in hard times. Gratitude isn't only a celebration when good things happen. It's a declaration that God is good no matter what happens.
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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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The Word God wastes nothing and He heals two broken hearts with one story - the reader and the writer.
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Simplicity is never a matter of circumstances simplicity is a matter of focus. So in the midst of educating and parenting our children, we can't necessarily go ahead and make everything fit into neat, controllable, simple schedules. But the point is, simplicity is: how do we keep our eyes fixed and focused on Christ, no matter where we are?
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The true Love Dare. To move into His presence and listen to His love unending and know the grace uncontainable. This is the vault of the miracles. The only thing that can change us, the world, is this- all His love.
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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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