The book [ One Thousand Gifts] took just over a year to write, on the fringe hours, early and late, around home… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
I was simply writing out our family stories in my online journal, scratching out what I want to remember, what I was… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Really, the greatest compliments about a book [One Thousand Gifts] are never about the book, or the author of the book, but… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Unbeknownst to me, two readers of the posts, both published authors, contacted their agent, Bill Jensen, within 24 hours of each other,… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
The Word God wastes nothing and He heals two broken hearts with one story - the reader and the writer. — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Really good writing, from my perspective, runs a lot like a visual on the screen. You need to create that kind of… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
The greatest compliment of the book [One Thousand Gifts]? Maybe the Muslim man in Iraq who was given the book and came… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
A year after One Thousand Gifts had released, Kathie Lee Gifford of the Today Show, named it one of her favorite things… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
I think it was simply word of mouth that made it a New York Times bestseller for more than 60 weeks, over… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
The book [ One Thousand Gifts] took just over a year to write, on the fringe hours, early and late, around home… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“And I don’t even know when my days start or end, heartsick babe in arms, waiting for an appointment with the cardiologist,… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Maybe the woman who was handed the book [One Thousand Gifts] by a friend the morning before she had an abortion scheduled… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Of asking nothing of the reader - but offering a still, quiet oasis in the cybersphere to go vertical with God. An… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
I don't think of myself as an author. But simply as a grateful child of God. John 3:27 has long been a… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
The real romantics imagine greying and sagging and wrinkling as the deepening of something sacred. — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Scales always lie. They don't make a scale that ever told the truth about value, about worth, about significance. — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“Satan's sin becomes the first sin of all humanity: the sin of ingratitude .” — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
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 Image
Every day, with every word, we get to decide: Do we mar the world, or mark the world? — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
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![“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.” quote by Ann Voskamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6a9/ann-voskamp-729_book_i-think-it-was-simply-word-of-mouth-that_1834388.jpg)
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![“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…” quote by Ann Voskamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/15b/ann-voskamp-729_abortion_maybe-the-woman-who-was-handed-the-book_2959506.jpg)
