"What if I gave thanks in the trouble,……" — Ann Voskamp
"What if I gave thanks in the trouble, for the trouble, because the trouble is a gift that causes me to turn? What if I loved God not for His goods but for His love itself that is goodness enough?"
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171 Quotes by Ann Voskamp
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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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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
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I'm not a collector. I don't like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate.
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It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
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