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 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
Until we call attention to the moments of our lives, we miss our lives. — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
The whole of the life -- even the hard -- is made up of the minute parts, and if I miss the… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Going ahead in the midst of the stressful circumstances and giving thanks in that moment - you can't simultaneously feel stress and… — 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
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
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
“Jesus embraced His not enough ... He gives thanks ... and there is more than enough. More than enough. Eucharisteo always precedes… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
I glance back in the mirror to the concrete bridge, the one I've boldly driven straight across without second thought, and I… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
When I fully enter time’s swift current, enter into the current moment with the weight of all my attention, I slow the… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, in all the days before… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
And the earth under your feet, the rain over your face upturned, the stars spinning all around you in the brazen glory:… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
The moment when you are most repelled by a child's behavior, that is your warning light to draw the very closest to… — 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
In a world addicted to speed, I blur the moments into one unholy smear. — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Lament is a cry of belief in a good God, a God who has His ear to our hearts, a God who… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
I have to seek God beauty. Because isn't my internal circuitry wired to seek out something worthy of worship? . True Beauty… — 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