Ann Voskamp

“I am blessed. I can bless.”

— Ann Voskamp

Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus.

— Ann Voskamp

Only speak words that make souls stronger.

— Ann Voskamp

Hurry always empties a soul.

— Ann Voskamp

Thanksgiving creates abundance.

— Ann Voskamp

God is good and I am always loved.

— Ann Voskamp

“Only self can kill joy.”

— Ann Voskamp

Without God’s Word as a lens, the world warps

— Ann Voskamp

“Love defies logic and keeps on loving when it makes no sense because that is what love does.”

— Ann Voskamp

If the Church is a body, and the body is a business, isn't that the same thing as prostitution?

— Ann Voskamp

And when I give thanks for the seemingly microscopic, I make a place for God to grow within me.

— Ann Voskamp

Practice is the hardest part of learning, and training is the essence of transformation.

— Ann Voskamp

Joy is always a function of gratitude - and gratitude is always a function of perspective.

— Ann Voskamp

Every day, with every word, we get to decide: Do we mar the world, or mark the world?

— Ann Voskamp

You, who were made by Love, made for love-- be still and know and watch love come down.

— Ann Voskamp

Eucharisteo—thanksgiving—always precedes the miracle.

— Ann Voskamp

“Thanksgiving is inherent to a true salvation experience; thanksgiving is necessary to live the well, whole, 'fullest' life.”

— Ann Voskamp

“Entertaining the mind with trivial pretties when I haven't bowed the head and heart in a prayer longer than five minutes in…

— Ann Voskamp

Life isn't an emergency. Christ is in charge of every moment of the day; nothing catches Him off guard.

— Ann Voskamp

Your naked body deserves the honor of being shared only with someone who is covenanted to never stop loving your naked soul.

— Ann Voskamp

Grace is alive, living waters. If I dam up the grace, hold the blessings tight, joy within dies... waters that have no…

— Ann Voskamp

Pick up a yardstick to measure your life against anyone else's, and you've just picked up a stick and beaten up your…

— Ann Voskamp

“The only way to live a truly remarkable life is not to get everyone to notice you, but to leave noticeable marks…

— Ann Voskamp

Love comes softly, it cannot be forced...cannot bear the weight of our expectations. Love always comes in the surrender - in the…

— Ann Voskamp

I was simply writing out our family stories in my online journal, scratching out what I want to remember, what I was…

— Ann Voskamp

“There are days when the sharp edge of self-condemnation cuts you so deep that you can be reaching, grasping, but can’t seem…

— Ann Voskamp

“Christmas is about God's doing whatever it takes to be with us-and our doing whatever it takes to be with Him. He…

— Ann Voskamp

“I had wanted someone to reach over to me at eighteen, sit in that church pew next to me, someone to touch…

— Ann Voskamp

“You will b experienced as a blessing--to the extent you have fist experienced yourself as blessed. You must feel the fullness of…

— Ann Voskamp

That which tears open our souls, those holes that splatter our sight, may actually become the thin, open places to see through…

— Ann Voskamp

[Bill Jensen] shared his extensive publishing background with me, and prayerfully offered to work out a proposal and to see if God…

— Ann Voskamp

Really, the greatest compliments about a book [One Thousand Gifts] are never about the book, or the author of the book, but…

— Ann Voskamp

How my eyes see, perspective, is my key to enter into His gates. I can only do so with thanksgiving. If my…

— Ann Voskamp

We're not giving what we're called to give, unless that giving affects how we live - affects what we put on our…

— Ann Voskamp

“When it gets dark, it's only because god has tucked me in a cleft of the rock and covered me, protected, with…

— Ann Voskamp

“As long as thanks is possible, then joy is always possible. Joy is always possible. Whenever, meaning—now; wherever, meaning—here. The holy grail…

— 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

“Eucharisteo, remembering with thanks, this is the bread. We take the moments as bread and give thanks and the thanks itself becomes…

— Ann Voskamp

I glance back in the mirror to the concrete bridge, the one I've boldly driven straight across without second thought, and I…

— 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