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Comparison is a thug that robs your joy. But its even more than that - Comparison makes you a thug who beats down somebody - or your soul.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Be radical about grace and relentless about truth and resolute about holiness.
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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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Grace is the only thing that is ever enough.
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Once you have tasted conviction, you can’t bear to keep swallowing complacency.
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Real Love truthfully sees the flaws - and still really loves fully.
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Busy is a choice. Stress is a choice. Joy is a choice. Choose well.
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God reveals Himself in rearview mirrors.
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Love doesn't necessarily mean bless or agree with, it means sacrifice for and suffer with.
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Pantheism, seeing the natural world as divine, is a very different thing than seeing divine God present in all things
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The frame of a soul was never made for fame. The frame of a soul was made to serve.
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...the secret to joy is to keep seeking God where we doubt He is.
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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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I only live the full life when I live fully in the moment.
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God’s purposes are not for me to understand His plans: His plan is for me to understand Who He is.
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The only way to fight a feeling is with a feeling.
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Only speak words that make souls stronger.
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God is always good and we are always loved... even when what He gives may appear ugly.
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I hunger for filling in a world that is starved.
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God can enter into me, even me, and use these hands, these feet, to be His love, a love that goes on and on and on forever, endless cycle of grace.
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I think God calls us to small things, to faithfulness right where we are, to just do the next thing.
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