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When grief is deepest, words are fewest.

Ann Voskamp

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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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Life isn't an emergency. Christ is in charge of every moment of the day nothing catches Him off guard.
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God appoints people who do disappoint - to point to a God who never disappoints.
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...the secret to joy is to keep seeking God where we doubt He is.
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God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: joy.
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The whole of the life -- even the hard -- is made up of the minute parts, and if I miss the infinitesimals, I miss the whole. These are new language lessons, and I live them out. 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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I fly to Paris and discover how to make love to God.
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Satan prowls but he’s a lion on a leash
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You will be most remembered-by what brought you most joy.
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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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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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Gratitude is the most fruitful way of deepening your consciousness that you are a divine choice.
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We only enter into the full life if our faith gives thanks. Because how else do we accept His free gift of salvation if not with thanksgiving? Thanksgiving is the evidence of our acceptance of whatever He gives. Thanksgiving is the manifestation of our Yes! to His grace.
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Busy is a choice. Stress is a choice. Joy is a choice. Choose well.
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Real joy is not found in having the best of everything but in trusting that God is making the best of everything.
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Girls rival each other. Women revive each other. Girls empale each other. Women empower each other. Girls compare each other. Women champion each other.
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Wherever you are, be all there. I have lived the runner, panting ahead in worry, pounding back in regrets, terrified to live in the present, because here-time asks me to do the hardest of all: just open wide and receive.
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Every moment I live, I live bowed to something. And if I don't see God, I'll bow down before something else.
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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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Holy joy lies in the habit of murmuring thanks to God for the smallest of graces.
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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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