One Thousand Gifts Quotes:

The book [ One Thousand Gifts] took just over a year to write, on the fringe hours, early and late, around home educating 6 kids and farming and blogging. And I wonder if the greatest challenges was to keep pressing into it when I had never been here before. I felt like Abraham - being called to something that he didn't know how to get to.

- Ann Voskamp

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topic: Book, Writing, Kids, One Thousand Gifts

Really, the greatest compliments about a book [One Thousand Gifts] are never about the book, or the author of the book, but about the reader and God and how the pages helped them connect at a deeper level.

- Ann Voskamp

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topic: Book, Levels, Pages, One Thousand Gifts

Maybe the man who said that his doctor had pulled him off Prozac because One Thousand Gifts and taking the dare to write 1,000 gifts was healing deep places in him and leading him to *experience* joy.

- Ann Voskamp

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topic: Healing, Writing, Men, One Thousand Gifts, Prozac

Maybe the woman who was handed the book [One Thousand Gifts] by a friend the morning before she had an abortion scheduled - and read the book and realized that this pregnancy that she didn't want - perhaps it too could be a gift from God? And then she said showed me the photo of this laughing 5 month old boy.

- Ann Voskamp

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topic: Morning, Pregnancy, Book, One Thousand Gifts

The greatest compliment of the book [One Thousand Gifts]? Maybe the Muslim man in Iraq who was given the book and came to a saving knowledge of Jesus, wanted to live his life in thanks to God?

- Ann Voskamp

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topic: Jesus, Book, Men, One Thousand Gifts

Kathie Lee [Gifford] invited me to come to New York for lunch with her - and surprised with an unexpected shout out again for One Thousand Gifts on the show and graciously asked a few questions on camera. Indebted to her and the people who read and looked for Jesus in the pages and shared the hope and joy of Him - right where they are.

- Ann Voskamp

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topic: Jesus, New York, Lunch, One Thousand Gifts, Shout Out

A year after One Thousand Gifts had released, Kathie Lee Gifford of the Today Show, named it one of her favorite things - the gift that will radically change your life. She shared the title with PEOPLE magazine as one of favorite books - quite astonishing for an evangelical Christian book.

- Ann Voskamp

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topic: Christian, Book, Years, Favorite Book, One Thousand Gifts

I think it was simply word of mouth that made it a New York Times bestseller for more than 60 weeks, over a year. People being moved and changed and transformed by the book [ One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are] and wanting to share that with hurting people all around them.

- Ann Voskamp

source: Source: churchleaders.com

topic: Hurt, New York, Book, Hurting People, One Thousand Gifts