We give thanks to God not because of how we feel, but because of Who He is. — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
God can enter into me, even me, and use these hands, these feet, to be His love, a love that goes on… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“The authority of God made all of creation. But it was the affection of God that made all His children.” — 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
Every mountain that every Christian ever faces, the Lord levels with sufficient grace. — 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
God gives the world enough of what it needs. All He asks is that we distribute what He gives. — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“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 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
“How does it save the world to reject unabashed joy when it is joy that saves us? Rejecting joy to stand in… — 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 the earth under your feet, the rain over your face upturned, the stars spinning all around you in the brazen glory:… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“It is true, I never stop wanting to learn the hard eucharisteo for deathbeds and dark skies and the prodigal sons. But… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“That is what a shadow is, and empty space, a hole in the light. Evil is this - a hole in the… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
When I realize that it is not God who is in my debt but I who am in His great debt, then… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Because nothing is greater and we have no greater need, God gives God. — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
We're called to do more than believe in God, we're called to live in God. — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“The only place we have to come before we die is the place of seeing 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
God is patiently transfiguring all the notes of my life into the song of His Son. — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“If God didn't withhold from us His very own Son, will God withhold anything we need?” — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
When we can't bottle our tears up anymore, God catches every one in His bottle. God's catching every falling tear because He… — 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
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
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 write a chapter, then edit it and edit it and edit it and edit it. I don't think we mine creativity… — 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
