The book [ One Thousand Gifts] took just over a year to write, on the fringe hours, early and late, around home… — 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
Really good writing, from my perspective, runs a lot like a visual on the screen. You need to create that kind of… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
The bravest love is wildly faithful and it falls hard again every morning... It knows what we seek may be found in… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
When we know Christ, we always know how things are going to go...always for our good and always for His glory. — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
You, who were made by Love, made for love-- be still and know and watch love come down. — 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
If I had the perspective of the whole, perhaps I'd see it? That which seems evil, is it a cloud to bring… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
I wonder if the greatest challenges was to keep pressing into [writing] when I had never been here before. I felt like… — 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
The gift list is thinking upon His goodness – and this, this pleases Him most! And most profits my own soul 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