When we fixate on the worst in something, we render ourselves incapable of fixing anything... But attend to the good in something… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“Love defies logic and keeps on loving when it makes no sense because that is what love does.” — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“You are, at your very essence, not what you think, but what you love.” — 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
“Love only has logic, only has meaning, when it takes the form of the cross.” — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“Love breaks us vulnerably open—and then can break us with rejection.” — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Love comes softly, it cannot be forced...cannot bear the weight of our expectations. Love always comes in the surrender - in the… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
The message of Christmas is not that we can make peace. Or that we can make love, make light, make gifts, or… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
The real romantics are the boring ones - they let another heart bore a hole deep into theirs. — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“Do I really smother my own joy because I believe that anger achieves more than love?” — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
God appoints people who do disappoint - to point to a God who never disappoints. — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
The true Love Dare. To move into His presence and listen to His love unending and know the grace uncontainable. This is… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“Love isn’t about how much money someone’s willing to lay down for you, but about how much life they’re willing to lay… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Any kind of love that lacks the iron of the Cross in it, is anemic love. — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Love doesn't necessarily mean bless or agree with, it means sacrifice for and suffer with. — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Do I really smother my own joy because I believe that anger achieves more than love? That Satan's way is more powerful,… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
A life contemplating the blessings of Christ becomes a life acting the love of Christ. — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
God’s purposes are not for me to understand His plans: His plan is for me to understand Who He is. — 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