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Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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God’s not out to get you - He’s out to give to you.
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Where ever you are be all there
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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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Love doesn't necessarily mean bless or agree with, it means sacrifice for and suffer with.
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Because nothing is greater and we have no greater need, God gives God.
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I am a hunter of beauty and I move slow and I keep the eyes wide, every fiber of every muscle sensing all wonder and this is the thrill of the hunt and I could be an expert on the life full, the beauty meat that lurks in every moment. I hunger to taste life. God.
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Christian hands never clasp and He doesn't give gifts for gain because a gift can never stop being a gift - it is always meant to be given.
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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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Pantheism, seeing the natural world as divine, is a very different thing than seeing divine God present in all things
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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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Homemaking is about making a home, not about making perfection.
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You love as well as you are willing to be inconvenienced.
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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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The message of Christmas is not that we can make peace. Or that we can make love, make light, make gifts, or make this world save itself. The message of Christmas is that this world’s a mess and we can never save ourselves from ourselves and we need a Messiah.
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I began [blogging] because I have this handicap - I can't figure out my life or see God clearly unless I untangle my life again with words.
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How long does it take your soul to realize that your life is full? The slower the living, the greater the sense of fullness and satisfaction.
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Our fall was, has always been, and always will be, that we aren’t satisfied in God and what He gives. We hunger for something more, something other.
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I fly to Paris and discover how to make love to God.
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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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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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