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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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When the heart and mind focus on things unseen - that's when there's a visible change in us.
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I think it was simply word of mouth that made it a New York Timesbestseller for more than 60 weeks, over a year. People being moved and changed and transformed by the book [One Thousand Gifts] and wanting to share that with hurting people all around them.
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If trust must be earned, hasn't God unequivocally earned our trust with the bark on the raw wounds, the thorns pressed into the brow, your name on the cracked lips.
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A lack of doxology leads to depravity.
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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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When you're most wounded by words run to the only Word that always brings healing.
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Gratitude is the most fruitful way of deepening your consciousness that you are a divine choice.
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Hurry always empties a soul.
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The greatest compliment of the book [One Thousand Gifts]? Maybe the Muslim man in Iraq who was given the book and came to a saving knowledge of Jesus, wanted to live his life in thanks to God?
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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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Learning slowly to not be so reactionary while inserting verbal gratitude into stressful situations is almost like being healed of mental blindness.
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I think God calls us to small things, to faithfulness right where we are, to just do the next thing.
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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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What is time for if not to bless?
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The only way to care for the disadvantaged - is to disadvantage yourself -which is guaranteed to turn out for your advantage.
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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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Every day, with every word, we get to decide: Do we mar the world, or mark the world?
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Life is so urgent it necessitates living slow.
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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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Is the height of my chara joy dependent on the depths of my eucharisteo thanks?
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