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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.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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...the secret to joy is to keep seeking God where we doubt He is.
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I only live the full life when I live fully in the moment.
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God appoints people who do disappoint - to point to a God who never disappoints.
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In counting gifts, to one thousand, more, I discover that slapping a sloppy brush of thanksgiving over everything in my life leaves me deeply thankful for very few things in my life.
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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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Darkness transfigures into light, bad transfigures into good, grief transfigures into grace, empty transfigures into full. God wastes nothing – ‘makes everything work out according to his plan.’ (Ephesians 1:11).
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We don't see the material world for what it is meant to be: the means to communion with God.... There is a belief missing, that God is good and that he gives good gifts.
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Can God be counted on? Count blessings and find out how many of His bridges have already held.
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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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Our fall is always first a failure to give thanks.
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We're called to do more than believe in God, we're called to live in God.
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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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Because nothing is greater and we have no greater need, God gives God.
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As long as thanks is possible, then joy is always possible.
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Worry is belief gone wrong. Because you don't believe that God will get it right. But peace - peace is belief that exhales. Because you believe that God's provision is everywhere - like air.
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Once you have tasted conviction, you can’t bear to keep swallowing complacency.
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Every breath is a battle between grudgery and gratitude. Give thanks...and you win joy.
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When the heart and mind focus on things unseen - that's when there's a visible change in us.
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