“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
We live in a broken world - and for the life of me I can't get it all right. But Jesus takes… — 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
“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
“Thanksgiving is inherent to a true salvation experience; thanksgiving is necessary to live the well, whole, 'fullest' life.” — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Life isn't an emergency. Christ is in charge of every moment of the day; nothing catches Him off guard. — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Grace is alive, living waters. If I dam up the grace, hold the blessings tight, joy within dies... waters that have no… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Pick up a yardstick to measure your life against anyone else's, and you've just picked up a stick and beaten up your… — 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… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
A year after One Thousand Gifts had released, Kathie Lee Gifford of the Today Show, named it one of her favorite things… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
I started blogging in 2004, light years ago on the Web. And I began because I have this handicap - I can't… — 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
When we lay the soil of our hard lives open to the rain of grace and let joy penetrate our cracked 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… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Losses do that. One life-loss can infect the whole of a life. Like a rash that wears through our days, our sight… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
I am a hunter of beauty and I move slow and I keep the eyes wide, every fiber of every muscle sensing… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“The only way to live a truly remarkable life is not to get everyone to notice you, but to leave noticeable marks… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Get this, kids - how a man proposes isn't what makes him romantic. It's how a man purposes to lay down his… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
I began [blogging] because I have this handicap - I can't figure out my life or see God clearly unless I untangle… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Life is so urgent and necessitates living slow. It's only the amateurs-and that I've been, and it's been ugly-who thinks slow and… — 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
Life-changing gratitude does not fasten to a life unless nailed through with one very specific nail at a time. — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Gratitude's not a natural posture. The prince of darkness is ultimately a spoiled ingrate, and I've spent most of my life as… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
In counting gifts, to one thousand, more, I discover that slapping a sloppy brush of thanksgiving over everything in my life leaves… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“Oh yes, I know you, the 'busyness' of your life leaving little room for the 'source' of your life.” — 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
It's habits that can imprison you and it's habits that can free you. But when thanks to God becomes a habit -… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“Life is dessert - too brief to hurry..."Where ever you are, be all there" is only possible with eucharisteo. Slow down and… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
At the last, this is what will determine a fulfilling, meaningful life, a life that, behind all the facades, every one of… — 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
“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
“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
“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
The real romantics imagine greying and sagging and wrinkling as the deepening of something sacred. — Ann Voskamp Copy Share
Scales always lie. They don't make a scale that ever told the truth about value, about worth, about significance. — Ann Voskamp Copy Share
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
“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
“Satan's sin becomes the first sin of all humanity: the sin of ingratitude .” — Ann Voskamp Copy Share
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
Every day, with every word, we get to decide: Do we mar the world, or mark the world? — Ann Voskamp Copy Share
Thanksgiving-giving thanks in everything-prepares the way that God might show us His fullest salvation in Christ. — Ann Voskamp Copy Share
Practice is the hardest part of learning, and training is the essence of transformation. — Ann Voskamp Copy Share
Every moment I live, I live bowed to something. And if I don't see God, I'll bow down before something else. — Ann Voskamp Copy Share
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