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“The sinful heart is never transformed by conformity to the imperatives but only by relationship with the One who cleanses hearts.”
― Elyse Fitzpatrick

“Our obedience has its origin in God's prior action, and forgetting that truth results in self-righteousness, pride, and despair.”
― Elyse Fitzpatrick, Because He Loves Me: How Christ Transforms Our Daily Life

“I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, in all the days before I die, the moments before I sleep.”
― Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

“Being in a hurry. Getting to the next thing without fully entering the thing in front of me. I cannot think of a single advantage I've ever gained from being in a hurry. But a thousand broken and missed things, tens of thousands, lie in the wake of all the rushing.... Through all that haste I thought I was making up time. It turns out I was throwing it away.”
― Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

“...the secret to joy is to keep seeking God where we doubt He is.”
― Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

“Our fall was, has always been, and always will be, that we aren’t satisfied in God and what He gives. We hunger for something more, something other.”
― Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

“A life contemplating the blessings of Christ becomes a life acting the love of Christ.”
― Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are