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When your ethnicity is heaven, then all adversity offers the gift of intimacy, driving you into the home of His heart.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Adversity
Driving
Gift
Offers
Heaven
Home
Heart
Ethnicity
Intimacy

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Poor communication doesn’t disconnect souls. It’s the disconnected souls who poorly communicate.
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All fear is but the notion that God's love ends.
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God is patiently transfiguring all the notes of my life into the song of His Son.
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Real Love truthfully sees the flaws - and still really loves fully.
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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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God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: joy.
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The joy of the Lord is your strength and the person of Christ is your unassailable joy - and the battle for joy is nothing less than fighting the good fight of faith.
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Because nothing is greater and we have no greater need, God gives God.
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Instead of giving someone a piece of your mind, it turns out far better if you give them a piece of your heart.
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It's habits that can imprison you and it's habits that can free you. But when thanks to God becomes a habit - so joy in God becomes your life.
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Love doesn't necessarily mean bless or agree with, it means sacrifice for and suffer with.
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Gratitude is not only a response to God in good times - it's ultimately the very will of God in hard times. Gratitude isn't only a celebration when good things happen. It's a declaration that God is good no matter what happens.
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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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God doesn't want your leftovers. God wants your love overtures, your first-overs, because He is your first love.
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Faith thanks God in the middle of the story.
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