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Because nothing is greater and we have no greater need, God gives God.

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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[Bill Jensen] shared his extensive publishing background with me, and prayerfully offered to work out a proposal and to see if God opened any publishing doors? I never get over the unexpected ways of God.
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If the Church is a body, and the body is a business, isn't that the same thing as prostitution?
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God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: joy.
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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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God gives us time. And who has time for God?
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A life contemplating the blessings of Christ becomes a life acting the love of Christ.
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I started blogging in 2004, light years ago on the Web.
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You were made for the place where your real # passion meets # compassion because there lies your real purpose.
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Living radical isn't about where you live - it's about how you love.
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From all of our beginnings, we keep reliving the Garden story.
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As long as thanks is possible, then joy is always possible.
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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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Thanksgiving creates abundance and the miracle of multiplying happens when I give thanks-take the just one loaf, say it is enough, and give thanks-and He miraculously makes it more than enough.
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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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We give thanks to God not because of how we feel, but because of Who He is.
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The moment when you are most repelled by a child's behavior, that is your warning light to draw the very closest to that child.
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Losses do that. One life-loss can infect the whole of a life. Like a rash that wears through our days, our sight becomes peppered with black voids. Now everywhere we look, we only see all that isn’t: holes, lack, deficiency.
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...the secret to joy is to keep seeking God where we doubt He is.
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Busy is a choice. Stress is a choice. Joy is a choice. Choose well.
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Faith thanks God in the middle of the story.
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