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Of asking nothing of the reader - but offering a still, quiet oasis in the cybersphere to go vertical with God. An island of stillness to know that He is God.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Nothing
Stillness
Offering
Islands
Asking
Quiet
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Vertical
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Island

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God appoints people who do disappoint - to point to a God who never disappoints.
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Every breath is a battle between grudgery and gratitude. Give thanks...and you win joy.
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A life contemplating the blessings of Christ becomes a life acting the love of Christ.
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Sometimes you don’t know when you’re taking the first step through a door until you’re already inside.
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Joy and pain, they are but two arteries of the one heart that pumps through all those who don't numb themselves to really living.
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Thanksgiving creates abundance.
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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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Parenting is about preparing children to get along with each other, to get along with you and without you, and that it's impossible to get along without God.
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God is always good and we are always loved... even when what He gives may appear ugly.
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The cynics, they can only speak of the dark, of the obvious, and this is not hard. For all it's supposed sophistication, it's cynicism that's simplistic. In a fallen world, how profound is to see the cracks?
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What is time for if not to bless?
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The Word God wastes nothing and He heals two broken hearts with one story - the reader and the writer.
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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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Praying with eyes wide open is the only way to pray without ceasing.
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Simplicity is never a matter of circumstances simplicity is a matter of focus. So in the midst of educating and parenting our children, we can't necessarily go ahead and make everything fit into neat, controllable, simple schedules. But the point is, simplicity is: how do we keep our eyes fixed and focused on Christ, no matter where we are?
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Our fall was, has always been, and always will be, that we aren’t satisfied in God and what He gives. We hunger for something more, something other.
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Satan prowls but he’s a lion on a leash
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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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