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Girls rival each other. Women revive each other. Girls empale each other. Women empower each other. Girls compare each other. Women champion each other.

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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A lack of doxology leads to depravity.
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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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This day is not a sieve, losing time. With each passing minute, each passing year, there's this deepening awareness that I am filling, gaining time. We stand on the brink of eternity.
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God appoints people who do disappoint - to point to a God who never disappoints.
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Praying with eyes wide open is the only way to pray without ceasing.
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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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Just that maybe … maybe you don’t want to change the story, because you don’t know what a different ending holds.
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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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Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus.
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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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Learning slowly to not be so reactionary while inserting verbal gratitude into stressful situations is almost like being healed of mental blindness.
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Stress isn't only a joy stealer. The way we respond to it can be sin.
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Our fall is always first a failure to give thanks.
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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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Life is so urgent and necessitates living slow. It's only the amateurs-and that I've been, and it's been ugly-who thinks slow and urgent are contradictory.
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Being joyful isn't what makes you grateful. Being grateful is what makes you joyful.
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Rejecting joy to stand in solidarity with the suffering doesn't rescue the suffering.
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I think it was simply word of mouth that made it a New York Times bestseller for more than 60 weeks, over a year. People being moved and changed and transformed by the book [ One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are] and wanting to share that with hurting people all around them.
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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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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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