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Faith thanks God in the middle of the story.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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When you're most wounded by words run to the only Word that always brings healing.
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Sometimes, too often, I don't want to muster the energy. Stress and anxiety seem easier.
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Are stress and worry evidence of a soul too lazy, too undisciplined, to keep gaze fixed on God?
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We live in a broken world - and for the life of me I can't get it all right. But Jesus takes all our broken messes and He makes them, by His grace, into a mosaic of grace.
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In our rushing, bulls in china shops, we break our own lives.
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Being joyful isn't what makes you grateful. Being grateful is what makes you joyful.
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Because nothing is greater and we have no greater need, God gives God.
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Maybe the man who said that his doctor had pulled him off Prozac because One Thousand Gifts and taking the dare to write 1,000 gifts was healing deep places in him and leading him to *experience* joy.
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Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus.
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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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It's the greatest compliment when the writer becomes invisible in the whole process.
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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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I think it was simply word of mouth that made it a New York Timesbestseller for more than 60 weeks, over a year. People being moved and changed and transformed by the book [One Thousand Gifts] and wanting to share that with hurting people all around them.
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Praying with eyes wide open is the only way to pray without ceasing.
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We all get to choose where we set up the stage of our lives - before the Crowds, the Court, the Congregation, the Critics (inner or otherwise)-- or the Cross of Christ. All except One will assess your performance. Only One will accept you before your performance ... Only in Jesus is there 100% acceptance before even 1% performance.
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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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God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: joy.
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There are two kinds of doubt: one that fully lives into the questions, and one that uses the questions as weapons against fully living.
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Gratitude for the seemingly insignificant—a seed—this plants the giant miracle.
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Satan's sin becomes the first sin of all humanity: the sin of ingratitude. Adam and Eve are, simply, painfully ungrateful for what God gave.
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