“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
Being joyful isn't what makes you grateful. Being grateful is what makes you joyful. — 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
“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
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
“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
In a storm of struggles, I have tried to control the elements, clasp the fist tight so as to protect self and… — 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
