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I didn't (and still don't) have comments [in my blog]. It's about simply writing for an audience of One.

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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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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There is unwavering peace today when an uncertain tomorrow is trusted to an unchanging God.
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Being joyful isn't what makes you grateful. Being grateful is what makes you joyful.
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Satan prowls but he’s a lion on a leash
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When grief is deepest, words are fewest.
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A life contemplating the blessings of Christ becomes a life acting the love of Christ.
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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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You've got to use the life you've been given to give others life
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I know the theological answers, but do my blood and my pulse?
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We were made to live in a posture of grateful worship, and when we live in praise we live our purpose, and all the pieces fall in place, us all falling down in thanks.
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Motherhood is a hallowed place because children aren’t commonplace. Co-laboring over the sculpting of souls is a sacred vocation, a humbling privilege. Never forget.
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We only enter into the full life if our faith gives thanks. Because how else do we accept His free gift of salvation if not with thanksgiving? Thanksgiving is the evidence of our acceptance of whatever He gives. Thanksgiving is the manifestation of our Yes! to His grace.
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Really good writing, from my perspective, runs a lot like a visual on the screen. You need to create that kind of detail and have credibility with the reader, so the reader knows that you were really there, that you really experienced it, that you know the details. That comes out of seeing.
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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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Poor communication doesn’t disconnect souls. It’s the disconnected souls who poorly communicate.
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In our rushing, bulls in china shops, we break our own lives.
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Until we call attention to the moments of our lives, we miss our lives.
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All fear is but the notion that God's love ends.
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I don't really want more time I just want enough time. Time to breathe deep and time to see real and time to laugh long, time to give You glory and rest deep and sing joy and just enough time in a day not to feel hounded, pressed, driven, or wild to get it all done-yesterday.
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I only live the full life when I live fully in the moment.
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