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We live in a broken world - and for the life of me I can't get it all right. But Jesus takes all our broken messes and He makes them, by His grace, into a mosaic of grace.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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You can give up the need to compete in the world- when you accept being complete in Christ.
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Only speak words that make souls stronger -\-\ for once words are spoken, they may be forgiven, but may be not forgotten.
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[Bill Jensen] shared his extensive publishing background with me, and prayerfully offered to work out a proposal and to see if God opened any publishing doors? I never get over the unexpected ways of God.
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Worry is the facade of taking action when prayer really is.
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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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You, who were made by Love, made for love-- be still and know and watch love come down.
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Instead of giving someone a piece of your mind, it turns out far better if you give them a piece of your heart.
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Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus.
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The busyness of your life leaves little room for the source of your life.
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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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No one told me that it would all happen at the same hallowed time: Mothering is at once the hardest and the holiest and the happiest.
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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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Praying with eyes wide open is the only way to pray without ceasing.
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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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Every time I surrender to stress, aren’t I advertising the unreliability of God?
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When you're most wounded by words run to the only Word that always brings healing.
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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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God gives us time. And who has time for God?
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All fear is but the notion that God's love ends.
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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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