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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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Comparison
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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 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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We want clarity -- and God gives a call. We want a road map --- and God gives a relationship. We want answers -- and God gives His hand.
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From all of our beginnings, we keep reliving the Garden story.
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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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I think God calls us to small things, to faithfulness right where we are, to just do the next thing.
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Is the height of my chara joy dependent on the depths of my eucharisteo thanks?
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The answer to deep anxiety is the deep adoration of God.
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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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I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, in all the days before I die, the moments before I sleep.
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Eucharisteo—thanksgiving—always precedes the miracle.
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Only speak words that make souls stronger.
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Really, the greatest compliments about a book [One Thousand Gifts] are never about the book, or the author of the book, but about the reader and God and how the pages helped them connect at a deeper level.
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I don't really want more time I just want enough time. Time to breathe deep and time to see real and time to laugh long, time to give You glory and rest deep and sing joy and just enough time in a day not to feel hounded, pressed, driven, or wild to get it all done-yesterday.
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I started blogging in 2004, light years ago on the Web.
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If trust must be earned, hasn't God unequivocally earned our trust with the bark on the raw wounds, the thorns pressed into the brow, your name on the cracked lips.
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Every breath is a battle between grudgery and gratitude. Give thanks...and you win joy.
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I fly to Paris and discover how to make love to God.
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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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