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Writing is this act of faith - a bit like driving in the fog: you can hardly see just in front of you. But you trust God's leading you and you just write into the space you can see ahead of you.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Rejecting joy to stand in solidarity with the suffering doesn't rescue the suffering.
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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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Kathie Lee [Gifford] invited me to come to New York for lunch with her - and surprised with an unexpected shout out again for One Thousand Gifts on the show and graciously asked a few questions on camera. Indebted to her and the people who read and looked for Jesus in the pages and shared the hope and joy of Him - right where they are.
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God gives the world enough of what it needs. All He asks is that we distribute what He gives.
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You will be most remembered-by what brought you most joy.
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...life change comes when we receive life with thanks and ask for nothing to change.
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Real Love truthfully sees the flaws - and still really loves fully.
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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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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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I think it was simply word of mouth that made it a New York Timesbestseller for more than 60 weeks, over a year. People being moved and changed and transformed by the book [One Thousand Gifts] and wanting to share that with hurting people all around them.
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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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What was intended to harm, God intended it all for good. And no matter what intends to harm you, God's arms have you. You can never be undone.
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Is the height of my chara joy dependent on the depths of my eucharisteo thanks?
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Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus.
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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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Living radical isn't about where you live - it's about how you love.
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Fullness of joy is discovered only in the emptying of will.
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God only allows pain if He’s allowing something new to be born.
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It's the greatest compliment when the writer becomes invisible in the whole process.
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The greatest compliment of the book [One Thousand Gifts]? Maybe the Muslim man in Iraq who was given the book and came to a saving knowledge of Jesus, wanted to live his life in thanks to God?
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