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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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Writer
Still
Island
Nothing
Stillness
Offering
Islands
Asking
Quiet
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Oasis
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Vertical

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Real Womanhood isn’t a function of becoming a great mother, but of being loved by your Great Father.
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God reveals Himself in rearview mirrors.
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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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We give thanks to God not because of how we feel, but because of Who He is.
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We can worship Christ in our sanctuaries and we can pray to God on our knees, but how we treat - or neglect - the person next door, the poor, every human being, this is how we truly speak to Christ and this is how we really treat Jesus.
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There are two kinds of doubt: one that fully lives into the questions, and one that uses the questions as weapons against fully living.
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Are stress and worry evidence of a soul too lazy, too undisciplined, to keep gaze fixed on God?
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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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Worry is the facade of taking action when prayer really is.
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The book [ One Thousand Gifts] took just over a year to write, on the fringe hours, early and late, around home educating 6 kids and farming and blogging.
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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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Life is so urgent it necessitates living slow.
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Christian hands never clasp and He doesn't give gifts for gain because a gift can never stop being a gift - it is always meant to be given.
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Life isn't an emergency. Christ is in charge of every moment of the day nothing catches Him off guard.
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I receive grace. And through me, grace could flow on. Like a cycle of water in continuous movement, grace is meant to fall, a rain...again, again, again. I could share the grace, multiply the joy, extend the table of the feast, enlarge the paradise of His presence. I am blessed. I can bless.
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I hunger for filling in a world that is starved.
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The fear is suffocating, terrorizing, and I want the remedy, and it is trust. Trust is everything.
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I wonder if the greatest challenges was to keep pressing into [writing] when I had never been here before. I felt like Abraham - being called to something that he didn't know how to get to.
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If I had the perspective of the whole, perhaps I'd see it? That which seems evil, is it a cloud to bring rain, to bring a greater good to the whole of the world? Who would ever know the greater graces of comfort and perseverance, mercy and forgiveness, patience and courage, if no shadows fell over a life?
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And when I give thanks for the seemingly microscopic, I make a place for God to grow within me.
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