"But wells don't come without first begging to……" — Ann Voskamp
"But wells don't come without first begging to see the wells; wells don't come without first splitting open hard earth, cracking back the lids. There's no seeing God face-to-face without first the ripping."
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171 Quotes by Ann Voskamp
Ann Voskamp has 171 quotes on this site.
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Joy is always a function of gratitude - and gratitude is always a function of perspective.
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We were made to live in a posture of grateful worship, and when we live in praise we live our…
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There is a way to live the big of giving thanks in all things. It is this: to give thanks…
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God doesn't want your leftovers. God wants your love overtures, your first-overs, because He is your first love.
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Like the wind, Grace finds us wherever we are and won't leave us however we were found.
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The bravest love is wildly faithful and it falls hard again every morning... It knows what we seek may be…
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I have to seek God beauty. Because isn't my internal circuitry wired to seek out something worthy of worship? .…
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The gift list is thinking upon His goodness – and this, this pleases Him most! And most profits my own…
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I glance back in the mirror to the concrete bridge, the one I've boldly driven straight across without second thought,…
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Satan's sin becomes the first sin of all humanity: the sin of ingratitude. Adam and Eve are, simply, painfully ungrateful…
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In counting gifts, to one thousand, more, I discover that slapping a sloppy brush of thanksgiving over everything in my…
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Thanksgiving creates abundance; and the miracle of multiplying happens when I give thanks-take the just one loaf, say it is…
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More Begging Quotes
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Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not…
— Francis of Assisi
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When we ask for love, we don't ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to…
— Mortimer Adler
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I don't like begging money from producers.
— David Byrne
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Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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In 1992, the federal Government actually issued more work authorizations to immigrants and temporary foreign workers than the net number…
— Ronald Reagan
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We went all the way down the Himalayan chain for a day and a half. That was magnificent, except the…
— Richard Branson
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God, if ever I have come close to wanting to commit suicide, it is now, with the groggy sleepless blood…
— Sylvia Plath
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Do you know what prayer is? It is not begging God for this and that. The first thing we have…
— John G. Lake
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As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg
— Oscar Wilde
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...So they are trying to do something about it. They are not doing it by seeking charity. They are not…
— Cesar Chavez
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Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a begging.
— Martin Luther
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I used to think marriage was a plate-glass window just begging for a brick.
— Jeanette Winterson
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