Ann Voskamp

God gives us time. And who has time for God?

— Ann Voskamp

Satan prowls but he’s a lion on a leash

— Ann Voskamp

Grace is the only thing that is ever enough.

— Ann Voskamp

Life is so urgent it necessitates living slow.

— Ann Voskamp

“Thanks makes now a sanctuary.”

— Ann Voskamp

Isn't falling in love always the fullest life?

— Ann Voskamp

“God holds us in the untamed moments too.”

— Ann Voskamp

Faith thanks God in the middle of the story.

— Ann Voskamp

“I don’t turn away—grief can feel like an aching love song.”

— Ann Voskamp

“Satan's sin becomes the first sin of all humanity: the sin of ingratitude .”

— Ann Voskamp

Whatever I'm writing comes organically out of my life.

— Ann Voskamp

“The only way to the abundant life is to love the right things in the right ways.”

— Ann Voskamp

The only way to fight a feeling is with a feeling.

— Ann Voskamp

Because nothing is greater and we have no greater need, God gives God.

— Ann Voskamp

Every breath is a battle between grudgery and gratitude. Give thanks...and you win joy.

— Ann Voskamp

Worry is the facade of taking action when prayer really is.

— Ann Voskamp

“That is what a shadow is, and empty space, a hole in the light. Evil is this - a hole in the…

— Ann Voskamp

“A pantheist's god is a passive god, but omnipresent God is Beauty who demands worship, passion, and the sacrifice of a life,…

— Ann Voskamp

Worry is belief gone wrong. Because you don't believe that God will get it right. But peace - peace is belief that…

— Ann Voskamp

Our [people's] very saving is associated with our gratitude. Which follows: if our fall in the garden was ingratitude, then salvation must…

— Ann Voskamp

Adults are tempted to produce and perform Christmas for their kids and their families, and they arrive at Christmas Day weary and…

— Ann Voskamp

When I realize that it is not God who is in my debt but I who am in His great debt, then…

— Ann Voskamp

“You are the most loved not when you’re pretending to have it all together; you are actually the most loved when you…

— Ann Voskamp

There is a way to live the big of giving thanks in all things. It is this: to give thanks in this…

— Ann Voskamp

Thanksgiving creates abundance; and the miracle of multiplying happens when I give thanks-take the just one loaf, say it is enough, and…

— Ann Voskamp

“Eucharisteo means 'to give thanks,' and give is a verb, something that we do. God calls me to do thanks. to give…

— Ann Voskamp

My husband is Dutch, and his family, when you sat down to eat food at the table, you never left the table…

— Ann Voskamp

“Time, what God first deemed holy above all else (Genesis 2:3). Thank God for the time, and very God enters that time,…

— Ann Voskamp

“When the laundry is for the dozen arms of children or the dozen legs, it's true, I think I'm due some appreciation.…

— Ann Voskamp

“work-worn, on a gingham towel draped over the cupboard. “All of them stillborn.” I smother a sigh with a smile, weak and…

— Ann Voskamp

Writing is this act of faith - a bit like driving in the fog: you can hardly see just in front of…

— Ann Voskamp

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

“The joy of small that makes life large. Hadn't I personally experienced it before too, that vantage point that gave a sense…

— Ann Voskamp

“When bridges seem to give way, we fall into Christ's safe arms, true bridge, and not into hopelessness. It is safe to…

— Ann Voskamp

“If it were up to me..." and then the words pound, desperate and hard, "I'd write this story differently."... "Just that maybe...…

— Ann Voskamp

“It is true, I never stop wanting to learn the hard eucharisteo for deathbeds and dark skies and the prodigal sons. But…

— Ann Voskamp

“Who trusts the Bridge Builder when you wake to snow on your blankets and winter blasting through cracked walls and dinner for…

— Ann Voskamp

“For forty long years, God's people daily eat manna - a substance whose name literally mans 'What is it?' Hungry, they choose…

— Ann Voskamp

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

“The gift list is thinking upon His goodness – and this, this pleases Him most! And most profits my own soul and…

— Ann Voskamp