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When grief is deepest, words are fewest.

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Fewest
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Grief

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I don't think of myself as an author. But simply as a grateful child of God. John 3:27 has long been a life verse: A man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven. Any more words will only be solely a gift from Him. I can only faithfully wait.
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A year after One Thousand Gifts had released, Kathie Lee Gifford of the Today Show, named it one of her favorite things - the gift that will radically change your life. She shared the title with PEOPLE magazine as one of favorite books - quite astonishing for an evangelical Christian book.
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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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A life contemplating the blessings of Christ becomes a life acting the love of Christ.
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Really good writing, from my perspective, runs a lot like a visual on the screen. You need to create that kind of detail and have credibility with the reader, so the reader knows that you were really there, that you really experienced it, that you know the details. That comes out of seeing.
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In naming that which is right before me, that which I'd otherwise miss, the invisible becomes visible.
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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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The brave who focus on all things good and all things beautiful and all things true, even in the small, who give thanks for it and discover joy even in the here and now, they are the change agents who bring fullest light to all the world.
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Busy is a choice. Stress is a choice. Joy is a choice. Choose well.
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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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A lack of doxology leads to depravity.
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Worry is the facade of taking action when prayer really is.
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It’s impossible to give thanks and simultaneously feel fear
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I started blogging in 2004, light years ago on the Web. And I began because I have this handicap - I can't figure out my life or see God clearly unless I untangle my life again with words.
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Like the wind, Grace finds us wherever we are and won't leave us however we were found.
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Poor communication doesn’t disconnect souls. It’s the disconnected souls who poorly communicate.
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Of asking nothing of the reader - but offering a still, quiet oasis in the cybersphere to go vertical with God. An island of stillness to know that He is God.
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Only speak words that make souls stronger.
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Love doesn't necessarily mean bless or agree with, it means sacrifice for and suffer with.
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That which tears open our souls, those holes that splatter our sight, may actually become the thin, open places to see through the mess of this place to the heart-aching beauty beyond. To Him. To the God whom we endlessly crave.
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