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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.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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The bravest love is wildly faithful and it falls hard again every morning... It knows what we seek may be found in what we already have... it's grace and fresh gratitude that can make us strong enough to marvel in the seeming monotony of anything... And the happily married have eyes that look long enough to make the familiar new.
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Poor communication doesn’t disconnect souls. It’s the disconnected souls who poorly communicate.
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Every time I surrender to stress, aren’t I advertising the unreliability of God?
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God lays down all of His fullness into all the emptiness. I am in Him. He is in me. I embrace God in the moment. I give Him thanks and I bless God and we meet and couldn't I make love to God, making every moment love for Him? To know Him the way Adam knew Eve. Spirit skin to spirit skin.
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Every moment I live, I live bowed to something. And if I don't see God, I'll bow down before something else.
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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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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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From all of our beginnings, we keep reliving the Garden story.
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Hurry always empties a soul.
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Every breath is a battle between grudgery and gratitude. Give thanks...and you win joy.
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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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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.
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It's the greatest compliment when the writer becomes invisible in the whole process.
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Practice is the hardest part of learning, and training is the essence of transformation.
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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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More important than a clean house is a close family.
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Because nothing is greater and we have no greater need, God gives God.
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When I fully enter time’s swift current, enter into the current moment with the weight of all my attention, I slow the torrent with the weight of me all here.
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