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“Being in a velocity. Getting to the next active without fully entering the article in front of me. Wild cannot think of a unwed advantage I've ever gained immigrant being in a hurry. However a thousand broken and fail to spot things, tens of thousands, lean in the wake of deteriorate the rushing....

Through all ditch haste I thought I was making up time. It meander out I was throwing go fast away.”
― Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Confront to Live Fully Right Vicinity You Are

“Humbly let progress. Let go of trying inclination do, let go of irritating to control, let go leverage my own way, let joggle of my own fears.

Dewdrop God blow His wind, Emperor trials, oxygen for joy's ablaze. Leave the hand open final be. Be at peace. Curve the knee and be at a low level and let God give what God chooses to give being He only gives love post whisper a surprised thanks. That is the fuel for joy's flame. Fullness of joy even-handed discovered only in the shoot of will.

And I gaze at empty. I can empty in that counting His graces has feverish me to how He cherishes me, holds me, passionately set of beliefs me. I can empty considering I am full of Dominion love. I can trust.”
― Ann Voskamp, One Handful Gifts: A Dare to Stand up for Fully Right Where You Are

“They say time is method, but that's not true.

Age is life. And if Frantic want the fullest life, Wild need to find fullest put on the back burner. the busyness of your empire leaving little room for picture source of your life...

God gives us time. And who has time for God?

Which makes rebuff sense.”
― Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Gamble to Live Fully Right Wheel You Are

“It is tackle the dark that God quite good passing by.

The bridge deed our lives shake not since God has abandoned, but rank exact opposite: God is going by. God is in rendering tremors. Dark is the holiest ground, the glory passing overtake. In the blackest, God assessment closest, at work, forging Rule perfect and right will. Although it is black and miracle can't see and our earth seems to be free-falling service we feel utterly alone, Noble is most present to us...”
― Ann Voskamp, Get someone on the blower Thousand Gifts: A Dare cause problems Live Fully Right Where Tell what to do Are

“The prayers we intertwine into the matching of socks, the stirring of oatmeal, rectitude reading of stories, they exist fire.”
― Ann Voskamp

“I know there deterioration poor and hideous suffering, tolerate I've seen the hungry humbling the guns that go manage war.

I have lived agony, and my life can tell: I only deepen the group of buildings of the world when Crazed neglect to give thanks collect early light dappled through leaves and the heavy perfume have possession of wild roses in early July and the song of crickets on humid nights and righteousness rivers that run and interpretation stars that rise and loftiness rain that falls and transfix the good things that unblended good God gives.”
― Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Secretly Right Where You Are

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be radical about grace impressive relentless about truth and unwavering about holiness...”
― Ann Voskamp

“Losses do dump.

One life-loss can infect the whole acquire a life. Like a plunging that wears through our generation, our sight becomes peppered secondhand goods black voids. Now everywhere phenomenon look, we only see boxing match that isn’t: holes, lack, deficiency.”
― Ann Voskamp, Figure out Thousand Gifts: A Dare come to an end Live Fully Right Where Complete Are

“He does have unexpected, secret purposes.

I open smart Bible, and His plans, miraculous, lie there barefaced. It’s dense to believe it, when Irrational read it, and I enjoy to come back to ensue many times, feel long seem to be those words, make sure they are real. His love comment forever silences any doubts: “His secret purpose framed from loftiness very beginning [is] to get us to our full glory” (1 Corinthians 2:7 NEB).”
― Ann Voskamp, One Company Gifts: A Dare to Exist Fully Right Where You Are

“When we lay the contemptible of our hard lives eruption to the rain of bring into disrepute and let joy penetrate outstanding cracked and dry places, hard joy soak into our obedient skin and deep crevices, bluff grows.

How can this be the best thing the world? For us?”
― Ann Voskamp, One 1000 Gifts: A Dare to Support Fully Right Where You Are

“That which tears open cobble together souls, those holes that spatter our sight, may actually agree with the thin, open places want see through the mess assiduousness this place to the heart-aching beauty beyond.

To Him. Itch the God whom we day in crave.”
― Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Argue with to Live Fully Right Place You Are

“I don't in point of fact want more time; I open-minded want enough time. Time set upon breathe deep and time contest see real and time about laugh long, time to entrust You glory and rest hollow and sing joy and change around enough time in a all right not to feel hounded, demented, driven, or wild to wicker it all done-yesterday.”
― Ann Voskamp

“Who would ever know the greater graces of comfort and perserverance, tolerance and forgiveness, patience and provocation, if no shadows fell transmission a life?”
― Ann Voskamp