Every breath is a battle between grudgery and gratitude. Give thanks...and you win joy. — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Because nothing is greater and we have no greater need, God gives God. — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
We give thanks to God not because of how we feel, but because of Who He is. — 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
God is always good and we are always loved... even when what He gives may appear ugly. — 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
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 Copy Share Image
There is a way to live the big of giving thanks in all things. It is this: to give thanks in this… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Christian hands never clasp and He doesn't give gifts for gain because a gift can never stop being a gift - it… — 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
On the night He was betrayed Jesus broke bread and lifted it up and gave THANKS. If Jesus can give thanks in… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Joy is the realest reality, the fullest life, and joy is always given, never grasped. God gives gifts and I give thanks… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Thanksgiving-giving thanks in everything-prepares the way that God might show us His fullest salvation in Christ. — 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
The whole of the life -- even the hard -- is made up of the minute parts, and if I miss the… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
They say time is money, but that's not true. Time is life. And if I want the fullest life, I need to… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
The practice of giving thanks...eucharisteo...this is the way we practice the presence of God, stay present to His presence, and it is… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Satan’s sin becomes the first sin of all humanity: the sin of ingratitude. Adam and Eve are, simply, painfully, ungrateful for what… — 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… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Going ahead in the midst of the stressful circumstances and giving thanks in that moment - you can't simultaneously feel stress and… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Research actually indicates that if you write down what you're grateful for, it increases your happiness by 25 percent. And who doesn't… — 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
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 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
But, someone, please give me—who is born again but still so much in need of being born anew—give me the details of… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Instead of giving someone a piece of your mind, it turns out far better if you give them a piece of your… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
God lays down all of His fullness into all the emptiness. I am in Him. He is in me. I embrace God… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
And when I give thanks for the seemingly microscopic, I make a place for God to grow within me. — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Our fall was, has always been, and always will be, that we aren’t satisfied in God and what He gives. We hunger… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
We want clarity -- and God gives a call. We want a road map --- and God gives a relationship. We want… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I don't really want more time; I just want enough time. Time to breathe deep and time to see real and time… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
How my eyes see, perspective, is my key to enter into His gates. I can only do so with thanksgiving. If my… — 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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