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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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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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When we know Christ, we always know how things are going to go...always for our good and always for His glory.
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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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It’s impossible to give thanks and simultaneously feel fear
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It's the greatest compliment when the writer becomes invisible in the whole process.
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I only live the full life when I live fully in the moment.
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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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Joy is always a function of gratitude - and gratitude is always a function of perspective.
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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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But, someone, please give me—who is born again but still so much in need of being born anew—give me the details of how to live in the waiting cocoon before the forever begins?
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God only allows pain if He’s allowing something new to be born.
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Because nothing is greater and we have no greater need, God gives God.
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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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We don't see the material world for what it is meant to be: the means to communion with God.... There is a belief missing, that God is good and that he gives good gifts.
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Remembering with thanks is what causes us to trust - to really believe.
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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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I think God calls us to small things, to faithfulness right where we are, to just do the next thing.
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The only way to fight a feeling is with a feeling.
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Every breath is a battle between grudgery and gratitude. Give thanks...and you win joy.
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Love comes softly, it cannot be forced...cannot bear the weight of our expectations. Love always comes in the surrender - in the falling.
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