--- title: "14 Fall Quotes By Ann Voskamp" description: "14 Fall quotes by Ann Voskamp. Plus more from Ann Voskamp and more Fall sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/92b/ann-voskamp-729_eden_i-think-the-fall-in-eden-was-ultimately_1892797.png" --- > [I think the fall in Eden was ultimately a failure to give thanks.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-voskamp/i-think-the-fall-in-eden-was-ultimately-a-failure-to-give-thanks/) [Ann Voskamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-voskamp/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/92b/ann-voskamp-729_eden_i-think-the-fall-in-eden-was-ultimately_1892797.png) > [Our fall is always first a failure to give thanks.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-voskamp/our-fall-is-always-first-a-failure-to-give-thanks/) [Ann Voskamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-voskamp/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3dc/ann-voskamp-729_failure_our-fall-is-always-first-a-failure-to-gi_766278.png) > [Isn't falling in love always the fullest life?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-voskamp/isn-t-falling-in-love-always-the-fullest-life/) [Ann Voskamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-voskamp/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/89c/ann-voskamp-729_fall_isn-t-falling-in-love-always-the-fullest_1864938.png) > [We were made to live in a posture of grateful worship, and when we live in praise we live our purpose, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-voskamp/we-were-made-to-live-in-a-posture-of-grateful-worship-and-when-we/) [Ann Voskamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-voskamp/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/28a/ann-voskamp-729_fall_we-were-made-to-live-in-a-posture-of-gra_382215.png) > [Our fall was, has always been, and always will be, that we aren’t satisfied in God and what He gives. We hunger…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-voskamp/our-fall-was-has-always-been-and-always-will-be-that-we-aren-t/) [Ann Voskamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-voskamp/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/41e/ann-voskamp-729_fall_our-fall-was-has-always-been-and-always_2965678.png) > [ Our \[people's\] very saving is associated with our gratitude. Which follows: if our fall in the garden was ingratitude, then salvation must… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-voskamp/our-people-s-very-saving-is-associated-with-our-gratitude-which/) [Ann Voskamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-voskamp/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/61a/ann-voskamp-729_fall_our-people-s-very-saving-is-associated-w_571971.png) > [Love comes softly, it cannot be forced...cannot bear the weight of our expectations. Love always comes in the surrender - in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-voskamp/love-comes-softly-it-cannot-be-forced-cannot-bear-the-weight-of-our/) [Ann Voskamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-voskamp/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/08f/ann-voskamp-729_bears_love-comes-softly-it-cannot-be-forced-ca_2619800.png) > [When we can't bottle our tears up anymore, God catches every one in His bottle. God's catching every falling tear because He…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-voskamp/when-we-can-t-bottle-our-tears-up-anymore-god-catches-every-one-in/) [Ann Voskamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-voskamp/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8d7/ann-voskamp-729_anymore_when-we-can-t-bottle-our-tears-up-anymor_2245496.jpg) > [The bravest love is wildly faithful and it falls hard again every morning... It knows what we seek may be found in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-voskamp/the-bravest-love-is-wildly-faithful-and-it-falls-hard-again-every/) [Ann Voskamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-voskamp/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/06a/ann-voskamp-729_advice_the-bravest-love-is-wildly-faithful-and_1117101.png) > [Satan’s sin becomes the first sin of all humanity: the sin of ingratitude. Adam and Eve are, simply, painfully, ungrateful for what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-voskamp/satan-s-sin-becomes-the-first-sin-of-all-humanity-the-sin-of-3/) [Ann Voskamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-voskamp/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4c3/ann-voskamp-729_adam_satan-s-sin-becomes-the-first-sin-of-all_1217233.png) > [I receive grace. And through me, grace could flow on. Like a cycle of water in continuous movement, grace is meant to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-voskamp/i-receive-grace-and-through-me-grace-could-flow-on-like-a-cycle-of/) [Ann Voskamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-voskamp/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2f2/ann-voskamp-729_bless_i-receive-grace-and-through-me-grace-cou_1744462.png) > [It is in the dark that God is passing by. The bridge and our lives shake not because God has abandoned, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-voskamp/it-is-in-the-dark-that-god-is-passing-by-the-bridge-and-our-lives/) [Ann Voskamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-voskamp/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2ea/ann-voskamp-729_abandoned_it-is-in-the-dark-that-god-is-passing-by_1826085.jpg) > [I know there is poor and hideous suffering, and I've seen the hungry and the guns that go to war. I have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-voskamp/i-know-there-is-poor-and-hideous-suffering-and-i-ve-seen-the-hungry/) [Ann Voskamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-voskamp/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/41a/ann-voskamp-729_cricket_i-know-there-is-poor-and-hideous-sufferi_301300.jpg) > [I have to seek God beauty. Because isn't my internal circuitry wired to seek out something worthy of worship? . True Beauty…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-voskamp/i-have-to-seek-god-beauty-because-isn-t-my-internal-circuitry-wired/) [Ann Voskamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-voskamp/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/975/ann-voskamp-729_all-things_i-have-to-seek-god-beauty-because-isn-t_2876063.jpg) ## Other authors on Fall ## More by Ann Voskamp > [We only enter into the full life if our faith gives thanks. Because how else do we accept His free gift of salvation if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-voskamp/we-only-enter-into-the-full-life-if-our-faith-gives-thanks-because/) [Ann Voskamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-voskamp/) > [The answer to deep anxiety is the deep adoration of God.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-voskamp/the-answer-to-deep-anxiety-is-the-deep-adoration-of-god/) [Ann Voskamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-voskamp/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-voskamp/trauma-s-storm-can-mask-the-christ-and-feelings-can-lie-i-draw-all/) [Ann Voskamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-voskamp/) > [“How long does it take for your soul to recognize that your life is full? The slower the living, the greater the sense of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-voskamp/how-long-does-it-take-for-your-soul-to-recognize-that-your-life-is/) [Ann Voskamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-voskamp/) > [“For forty long years, God's people daily eat manna - a substance whose name literally mans 'What is it?' Hungry, they choose to gather…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-voskamp/for-forty-long-years-god-s-people-daily-eat-manna-a-substance-whose/) [Ann Voskamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-voskamp/) > [The real romantics imagine greying and sagging and wrinkling as the deepening of something sacred.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-voskamp/the-real-romantics-imagine-greying-and-sagging-and-wrinkling-as-the/) [Ann Voskamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-voskamp/) > [Scales always lie. They don't make a scale that ever told the truth about value, about worth, about significance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-voskamp/scales-always-lie-they-don-t-make-a-scale-that-ever-told-the-truth/) [Ann Voskamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-voskamp/) > [Darkness transfigures into light, bad transfigures into good, grief transfigures into grace, empty transfigures into full. God wastes nothing – ‘makes everything work out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-voskamp/darkness-transfigures-into-light-bad-transfigures-into-good-grief/) [Ann Voskamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-voskamp/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-voskamp/and-the-saddest-of-all-may-be-when-we-give-away-our-lives-to/) [Ann Voskamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-voskamp/) > [“Satan's sin becomes the first sin of all humanity: the sin of ingratitude .”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-voskamp/satan-s-sin-becomes-the-first-sin-of-all-humanity-the-sin-of/) [Ann Voskamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-voskamp/) > [Simplicity is never a matter of circumstances; simplicity is a matter of focus. So in the midst of educating and parenting our children, we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-voskamp/simplicity-is-never-a-matter-of-circumstances-simplicity-is-a-matter/) [Ann Voskamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-voskamp/) > [Every day, with every word, we get to decide: Do we mar the world, or mark the world?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-voskamp/every-day-with-every-word-we-get-to-decide-do-we-mar-the-world-or/) [Ann Voskamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-voskamp/) > [Thanksgiving-giving thanks in everything-prepares the way that God might show us His fullest salvation in Christ.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-voskamp/thanksgiving-giving-thanks-in-everything-prepares-the-way-that-god/) [Ann Voskamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-voskamp/) > [Practice is the hardest part of learning, and training is the essence of transformation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-voskamp/practice-is-the-hardest-part-of-learning-and-training-is-the-essence/) [Ann Voskamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-voskamp/) > [Every moment I live, I live bowed to something. And if I don't see God, I'll bow down before something else.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-voskamp/every-moment-i-live-i-live-bowed-to-something-and-if-i-don-t-see-god/) [Ann Voskamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-voskamp/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fall/ann-voskamp/#itemlist", "name": "14 Fall Quotes By Ann Voskamp", "numberOfItems": 14, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I think the fall in Eden was ultimately a failure to give thanks.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ann Voskamp" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-voskamp/i-think-the-fall-in-eden-was-ultimately-a-failure-to-give-thanks/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/92b/ann-voskamp-729_eden_i-think-the-fall-in-eden-was-ultimately_1892797.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/92b/ann-voskamp-729_eden_i-think-the-fall-in-eden-was-ultimately_1892797.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/92b/ann-voskamp-729_eden_i-think-the-fall-in-eden-was-ultimately_1892797.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I think the fall in Eden was ultimately a failure to give thanks.” — Ann Voskamp", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Our fall is always first a failure to give thanks.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ann Voskamp" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-voskamp/our-fall-is-always-first-a-failure-to-give-thanks/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3dc/ann-voskamp-729_failure_our-fall-is-always-first-a-failure-to-gi_766278.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3dc/ann-voskamp-729_failure_our-fall-is-always-first-a-failure-to-gi_766278.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3dc/ann-voskamp-729_failure_our-fall-is-always-first-a-failure-to-gi_766278.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Our fall is always first a failure to give thanks.” — Ann Voskamp", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Isn't falling in love always the fullest life?", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ann Voskamp" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-voskamp/isn-t-falling-in-love-always-the-fullest-life/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/89c/ann-voskamp-729_fall_isn-t-falling-in-love-always-the-fullest_1864938.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/89c/ann-voskamp-729_fall_isn-t-falling-in-love-always-the-fullest_1864938.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/89c/ann-voskamp-729_fall_isn-t-falling-in-love-always-the-fullest_1864938.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Isn't falling in love always the fullest life?” — Ann Voskamp", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "We were made to live in a posture of grateful worship, and when we live in praise we live our purpose, and all the pieces fall in place, us all falling down in thanks.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ann Voskamp" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-voskamp/we-were-made-to-live-in-a-posture-of-grateful-worship-and-when-we/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/28a/ann-voskamp-729_fall_we-were-made-to-live-in-a-posture-of-gra_382215.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/28a/ann-voskamp-729_fall_we-were-made-to-live-in-a-posture-of-gra_382215.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/28a/ann-voskamp-729_fall_we-were-made-to-live-in-a-posture-of-gra_382215.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“We were made to live in a posture of grateful worship, and when we live in praise we live our purpose, and…” — Ann Voskamp", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 5, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Our fall was, has always been, and always will be, that we aren’t satisfied in God and what He gives. 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And through me, grace could flow on. Like a cycle of water in continuous movement, grace is meant to fall, a rain...again, again, again. I could share the grace, multiply the joy, extend the table of the feast, enlarge the paradise of His presence. I am blessed. I can bless.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ann Voskamp" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-voskamp/i-receive-grace-and-through-me-grace-could-flow-on-like-a-cycle-of/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2f2/ann-voskamp-729_bless_i-receive-grace-and-through-me-grace-cou_1744462.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2f2/ann-voskamp-729_bless_i-receive-grace-and-through-me-grace-cou_1744462.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2f2/ann-voskamp-729_bless_i-receive-grace-and-through-me-grace-cou_1744462.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I receive grace. And through me, grace could flow on. 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