Every day, with every word, we get to decide: Do we mar the world, or mark the world? — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
I came into this world the way every person on the planet does - with clenched fists. — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
In a world addicted to speed, I blur the moments into one unholy smear. — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
We live in a broken world - and for the life of me I can't get it all right. But Jesus takes… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Giving thanks is that: making the canyon of pain into a megaphone to proclaim the ultimate goodness of God when Satan and… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
We don't see the material world for what it is meant to be: the means to communion with God… There is a… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
You can give up the need to compete in the world- when you accept being complete in Christ. — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Pantheism, seeing the natural world as divine, is a very different thing than seeing divine God present in all things — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
God gives the world enough of what it needs. All He asks is that we distribute what He gives. — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
The cynics, they can only speak of the dark, of the obvious, and this is not hard. For all it's supposed sophistication,… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
The true Love Dare. To move into His presence and listen to His love unending and know the grace uncontainable. This is… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
The brave who focus on all things good and all things beautiful and all things true, even in the small, who give… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
If I had the perspective of the whole, perhaps I'd see it? That which seems evil, is it a cloud to bring… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
The message of Christmas is not that we can make peace. Or that we can make love, make light, make gifts, or… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
When we lay the soil of our hard lives open to the rain of grace and let joy penetrate our cracked and… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
I know there is poor and hideous suffering, and I've seen the hungry and the guns that go to war. I have… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
I have to seek God beauty. Because isn't my internal circuitry wired to seek out something worthy of worship? . True Beauty… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
The cynics, they can only speak of the dark, of the obvious, and this is not hard. For all it’s supposed sophistication,… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
And the earth under your feet, the rain over your face upturned, the stars spinning all around you in the brazen glory:… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
It is in the dark that God is passing by. The bridge and our lives shake not because God has abandoned, but… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
The wrinkled man in the wheelchair with the legs wrapped, the girl with her face punctured deep with the teeth marks of… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
We only enter into the full life if our faith gives thanks. Because how else do we accept His free gift of salvation if… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share
“Trauma's storm can mask the Christ and feelings can lie. I draw all the hurting voices close and I tough their scars with a… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share
“How long does it take for your soul to recognize that your life is full? The slower the living, the greater the sense of… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share
“For forty long years, God's people daily eat manna - a substance whose name literally mans 'What is it?' Hungry, they choose to gather… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share
The real romantics imagine greying and sagging and wrinkling as the deepening of something sacred. — Ann Voskamp Copy Share
Scales always lie. They don't make a scale that ever told the truth about value, about worth, about significance. — Ann Voskamp Copy Share
Darkness transfigures into light, bad transfigures into good, grief transfigures into grace, empty transfigures into full. God wastes nothing – ‘makes everything work out… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share
“And the saddest of all may be when we give away our lives to insignificant things, things we didn’t realize we subconsciously loved. Turns… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share
“Satan's sin becomes the first sin of all humanity: the sin of ingratitude .” — Ann Voskamp Copy Share
Simplicity is never a matter of circumstances; simplicity is a matter of focus. So in the midst of educating and parenting our children, we… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share
Every day, with every word, we get to decide: Do we mar the world, or mark the world? — Ann Voskamp Copy Share
Thanksgiving-giving thanks in everything-prepares the way that God might show us His fullest salvation in Christ. — Ann Voskamp Copy Share
Practice is the hardest part of learning, and training is the essence of transformation. — Ann Voskamp Copy Share
Every moment I live, I live bowed to something. And if I don't see God, I'll bow down before something else. — Ann Voskamp Copy Share
