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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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Prostitution
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The message of Christmas is not that we can make peace. Or that we can make love, make light, make gifts, or make this world save itself. The message of Christmas is that this world’s a mess and we can never save ourselves from ourselves and we need a Messiah.
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Busy is a choice. Stress is a choice. Joy is a choice. Choose well.
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The practice of giving thanks...eucharisteo...this is the way we practice the presence of God, stay present to His presence, and it is always a practice of the eyes. We don't have to change what we see. Only the way we see.
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Love doesn't necessarily mean bless or agree with, it means sacrifice for and suffer with.
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God only allows pain if He’s allowing something new to be born.
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Hurry always empties a soul.
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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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Pick up a yardstick to measure your life against anyone else's, and you've just picked up a stick and beaten up your own soul.
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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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We're called to do more than believe in God, we're called to live in God.
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But wells don't come without first begging to see the wells wells don't come without first splitting open hard earth, cracking back the lids. There's no seeing God face-to-face without first the ripping.
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Gratitude's not a natural posture. The prince of darkness is ultimately a spoiled ingrate, and I've spent most of my life as kin to the fist-shaker.
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Because One died for me that I might breathe this breath...It's all a gift.
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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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It's the greatest compliment when the writer becomes invisible in the whole process.
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The book [ One Thousand Gifts] took just over a year to write, on the fringe hours, early and late, around home educating 6 kids and farming and blogging. And I wonder if the greatest challenges was to keep pressing into it when I had never been here before. I felt like Abraham - being called to something that he didn't know how to get to.
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We give thanks to God not because of how we feel, but because of Who He is.
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When the heart and mind focus on things unseen - that's when there's a visible change in us.
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God reveals Himself in rearview mirrors.
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