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“The well is always here. God is always here — precisely because He does care.”
― Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts Devotional: Reflections on Finding Everyday Graces

“When I go looking for glimpses of Him, when I seek to fill the empty places with more of Him who is beauty, my equilibrium recalibrates to find its center in the Judge who became grace to bestow grace and I can rightly read the scale, feel it inside, and know it’s true: If you can really see — the weight of Glory always tips the scales for joy.”
― Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts Devotional: Reflections on Finding Everyday Graces

“Can God be counted on? Count blessings and find out how many of His bridges have already held.”
― Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

“As G. K. Chesterton wrote, “How much larger your life would be if your self could become smaller in it.”22”
― Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts Devotional: Reflections on Finding Everyday Graces

“In love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

“I stop the spinning thoughts, the probing questions, the hands sorting, the laundry work, because God needs knees more than hands.”
― Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts Devotional: Reflections on Finding Everyday Graces

“echo James’s exhortation to those of us in the church today: My brothers and sisters who have received the Holy Spirit, we often lack love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, etc., even while many of our unbelieving friends exhibit these traits—brothers and sisters, these things ought not to be so!”
― Francis Chan, Forgotten God: Reversing Our Tragic Neglect of the Holy Spirit

“I think the fear of God failing us leads us to “cover for God.” This means we ask for less, expect less, and are satisfied with less because we are afraid to ask for or expect more.”
― Francis Chan, Forgotten God: Reversing Our Tragic Neglect of the Holy Spirit

“The smile he gave her was barely one at all. “We are all fragile, Isabelle. It’s the thing we learn in war.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

“Just because something is a good thing doesn’t mean it is good for this moment in your life.”
― Jessica N. Turner, The Fringe Hours: Making Time for You

“Beth Moore says, “Untreated guilt is the most fertile soil on earth for growing affliction.”3”
― Jessica N. Turner, The Fringe Hours: Making Time for You

“No one wins when you compare. You don’t win. Your family doesn’t win. Your friends don’t win. You must be in control and not let comparison take hold of your mind. Rather, focus on yourself, your family, and where God has you in your life.”
― Jessica N. Turner, The Fringe Hours: Making Time for You

“Christ at the end of a cross can upend whole worlds and everything lands aright.”
― Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts Devotional: Reflections on Finding Everyday Graces

“Love is ridiculous and reconfigures everything.”
― Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts Devotional: Reflections on Finding Everyday Graces

“The first time you do anything feels awkward. Feel awkward, but don’t assume you know what you’re dealing with until you’ve done it again and again and again.”
― Dana K. White, How to Manage Your Home Without Losing Your Mind: Dealing with Your House's Dirty Little Secrets

“This is what the Lord says: “Stop at the crossroads and look around. Ask for the old, godly way, and walk in it. Travel its path, and you will find rest for your souls. But you reply, ‘No, that’s not the road we want!”
― Durenda Wilson, Unhurried Grace for a Mom's Heart: 31 Days in God's Word

“To hear God speak to us, we need to slow our hearts and hush the other voices that demand our attention. We wait patiently on the Lord alone, like Elijah did on the mountain.”
― Durenda Wilson, Unhurried Grace for a Mom's Heart: 31 Days in God's Word

“Christians believe that the value of life begins at conception because that is when God creates a unique human life. A unique human life has unique human value. It does not need to do anything to have value. The value is found in what God did by creating it. Sartre believed that you were nothing until you did something; we believe you are nothing until God does something.”
― Rachel Jankovic, You Who? Why You Matter and How to Deal with It

“Jesus Christ came to this earth, struggled, suffered, and died so that you might die. Let that sink in. It was not His death that gave you life—His death gave you death in Him. But what happened after His death? His victory over death. The resurrection. Jesus Christ died so that you might die, and He lives so that you might live. Your life in Christ is what happens after your death in Him.”
― Rachel Jankovic, You Who? Why You Matter and How to Deal with It

“Education is never neutral. Education is discipleship. Discipleship is rooted in relationship. Relationships take time.”
― Durenda Wilson, The Four-Hour School Day: How You and Your Kids Can Thrive in the Homeschool Life

“He reaches our hearts when He delays our bodies. He touches our hearts when He heals our bodies. Our knowledge of Him as a healer may need to accrue over a lifetime.”
― Sara Hagerty, Adore: A Simple Practice for Experiencing God in the Middle Minutes of Your Day

“Betty made sure to write her parents about all the dramatic events of the spring of 1945. Four-term president Franklin Delano Roosevelt passed away in April: “Wasn’t the president’s death a shock? I heard it 15 minutes after he died and just couldn’t believe it. I was thrilled that Truman declared yesterday a day of prayer and asked the newspaper men who knew how, to pray for him. A good start—maybe he won’t be so bad after all. [A professor] had just said last Monday that he could think of nothing worse that could possibly happen to the U.S. than if Truman were to have been elected. And now this! We never know how God will use it.”4”
― Ellen Vaughn, Becoming Elisabeth Elliot