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I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give thanks the heavy perfume of wild roses in early July and the song of crickets on summer humid nights and the rivers that run and the stars that rise and the rain that falls and all the good things that a good God gives.

~Ann Voskamp

Topics: Deepen Early Falls Give Gives God Good Good Things Heavy July Life Lived My Life Neglect Nights Only Pain Perfume Rain Rise Rivers Roses Run Song Stars Summer Tell Thanks Things Wild World Wound

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When grief is deepest, words are fewest.

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Topics: Deepest Fewest Grief Words

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The brave who focus on all things good and all things beautiful and all things true, even in the small, who give thanks for it and discover joy even in the here and now, they are the change agents who bring fullest Light to all the world.

~Ann Voskamp

Topics: Agents All The World All Things Beautiful Brave Bring Change Discover Even Focus Fullest Give Good Here Joy Light Now Small Thanks Things True Who World

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Really good writing, from my perspective, runs a lot like a visual on the screen. You need to create that kind of detail and have credibility with the reader, so the reader knows that you were really there, that you really experienced it, that you know the details. That comes out of seeing.

~Ann Voskamp

Topics: Create Credibility Detail Details Experienced Good Good Writing Kind Know Knows Like Lot Need Out Perspective Reader Really Runs Screen Seeing Visual Were Writing You

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Comparison is a thug that robs your joy. But it's even more than that - Comparison makes you a thug who beats down somebody - or your soul.

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Topics: Beats Comparison Down Even Joy Makes More Somebody Soul Than Thug Who You Your

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By default, most of us have taken the dare to simply survive. Exist. Get through. For the most part, we live numb to life - we've grown weary and apathetic and jaded... and wounded.

~Ann Voskamp

Topics: Dare Default Exist Get Grown Jaded Life Live Most Numb Part Simply Survive Taken Through Us Weary Wounded

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Romance isn't measured by how viral your proposal goes. The Internet age may try to sell you something different, but don't ever forget that viral is closely associated with sickness - so don't ever make being viral your goal.

~Ann Voskamp

Topics: Age Associated Being Closely Different Ever Forget Goal Goes How Internet Make May Measured Proposal Romance Sell Sickness Something Try Viral You Your

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My husband is Dutch, and his family, when you sat down to eat food at the table, you never left the table until you ate living bread and drank living water. They never left the table until they'd read Scripture together. So morning, lunch, suppertime, Scripture was always read at the table, and then there was prayer to close.

~Ann Voskamp

Topics: Always Ate Bread Close Down Drank Dutch Eat Family Food His Husband Left Living Lunch Morning Never Prayer Read Sat Scripture Table Then Together Until Water You

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I came into this world the way every person on the planet does - with clenched fists.

~Ann Voskamp

Topics: Came Does Every Fists Person Planet Way World I Came

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In a storm of struggles, I have tried to control the elements, clasp the fist tight so as to protect self and happiness. But stress can be an addiction, and worry can be our lunge for control, and we forget the answer to this moment is always yes because of Christ.

~Ann Voskamp

Topics: Addiction Always Answer Because Christ Control Elements Fist Forget Happiness Moment Our Protect Self Storm Stress Struggles Tight Tried Worry Yes

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Author

Born: August 10th, 1973

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