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
“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
“When service is unto people, the bones can grow weary, the frustration deep. Because, agrees Dorothy Sayers, 'whenever man is made the… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Maybe the man who said that his doctor had pulled him off Prozac because One Thousand Gifts and taking the dare to… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“... I can see it in the looking back, how this daily practice of the discipline of gratitude is the way to… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Rejecting joy to stand in solidarity with the suffering doesn't rescue the suffering. — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
I make soup and I back bread and I know my supreme need is joy in God and I know I can't… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
How do I wake up to joy and grace and beauty and all that is the fullest life when I must stay… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Kathie Lee [Gifford] invited me to come to New York for lunch with her - and surprised with an unexpected shout out… — 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
Joy and pain, they are but two arteries of the one heart that pumps through all those who don't numb themselves to… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“Humbly let go. Let go of trying to do, let go of trying to control, let go of my own way, let… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Is the height of my chara joy dependent on the depths of my eucharisteo thanks? — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“When we lay the soil of our hard lives opened the rain of grace and let Joy permeate our cracked and dry… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“...this counting blessings was the unlocking of the mystery of joy, joy, "the gigantic secret of the Christian," joy hiding in gratitude… — 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
Comparison is a thug that robs your joy. But it's even more than that - Comparison makes you a thug who beats… — 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
Holy joy lies in the habit of murmuring thanks to God for the smallest of graces. — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
I receive grace. And through me, grace could flow on. Like a cycle of water in continuous movement, grace is meant to… — 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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