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Maybe the man who said that his doctor had pulled him off Prozac because One Thousand Gifts and taking the dare to write 1,000 gifts was healing deep places in him and leading him to *experience* joy.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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I think it was simply word of mouth that made it a New York Times bestseller for more than 60 weeks, over a year. People being moved and changed and transformed by the book [ One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are] and wanting to share that with hurting people all around them.
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In our rushing, bulls in china shops, we break our own lives.
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Your naked body deserves the honor of being shared only with someone who is covenanted to never stop loving your naked soul.
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God is patiently transfiguring all the notes of my life into the song of His Son.
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Once you have tasted conviction, you can’t bear to keep swallowing complacency.
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What if I gave thanks in the trouble, for the trouble, because the trouble is a gift that causes me to turn? What if I loved God not for His goods but for His love itself that is goodness enough?
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Without God’s Word as a lens, the world warps
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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.
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There is unwavering peace today when an uncertain tomorrow is trusted to an unchanging God.
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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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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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The life that counts blessings discovers its yielding more than it seems.
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It's the greatest compliment when the writer becomes invisible in the whole process.
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I began [blogging] because I have this handicap - I can't figure out my life or see God clearly unless I untangle my life again with words.
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We want clarity -- and God gives a call. We want a road map --- and God gives a relationship. We want answers -- and God gives His hand.
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I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, in all the days before I die, the moments before I sleep.
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Grace is the only thing that is ever enough.
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God’s not out to get you - He’s out to give to you.
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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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Any kind of love that lacks the iron of the Cross in it, is anemic love.
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