--- title: "11 Nature of Beauty Quotes By Ann Voskamp" description: "11 Nature of Beauty quotes by Ann Voskamp. Plus more from Ann Voskamp and more Nature of Beauty sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/487/ann-voskamp-729_grace_in-the-endless-cycle-of-grace-he-gives-u_1886953.png" --- > [“In the endless cycle of grace, He gives us gifts to serve the world.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-voskamp/in-the-endless-cycle-of-grace-he-gives-us-gifts-to-serve-the-world/) [Ann Voskamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-voskamp/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/487/ann-voskamp-729_grace_in-the-endless-cycle-of-grace-he-gives-u_1886953.png) > [... be radical about grace and relentless about truth and resolute about holiness...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-voskamp/be-radical-about-grace-and-relentless-about-truth-and-resolute-about/) [Ann Voskamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-voskamp/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cfd/ann-voskamp-729_grace_be-radical-about-grace-and-relentless-ab_669327.png) > [“... emptiness itself can birth the fullness of grace beacuse in the emptiness we have the opportunity to turn to God, ...”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-voskamp/emptiness-itself-can-birth-the-fullness-of-grace-beacuse-in-the/) [Ann Voskamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-voskamp/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/64e/ann-voskamp-729_emptiness_emptiness-itself-can-birth-the-fullness_2428895.png) > [God can enter into me, even me, and use these hands, these feet, to be His love, a love that goes on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-voskamp/god-can-enter-into-me-even-me-and-use-these-hands-these-feet-to-be/) [Ann Voskamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-voskamp/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6ce/ann-voskamp-729_christian-living_god-can-enter-into-me-even-me-and-use-th_462720.png) > [“We 'have' all received on grace after another, but we only recognize the glory of God in this moment 'when we wake…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-voskamp/we-have-all-received-on-grace-after-another-but-we-only-recognize-the/) [Ann Voskamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-voskamp/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bc6/ann-voskamp-729_glory-of-god_we-have-all-received-on-grace-after-anot_2266775.png) > [When we lay the soil of our hard lives open to the rain of grace and let joy penetrate our cracked and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-voskamp/when-we-lay-the-soil-of-our-hard-lives-open-to-the-rain-of-grace-and/) [Ann Voskamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-voskamp/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/810/ann-voskamp-729_being-the-best_when-we-lay-the-soil-of-our-hard-lives-o_2696898.png) > [“When we lay the soil of our hard lives opened the rain of grace and let Joy permeate our cracked and dry…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-voskamp/when-we-lay-the-soil-of-our-hard-lives-opened-the-rain-of-grace-and/) [Ann Voskamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-voskamp/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ea4/ann-voskamp-729_grace_when-we-lay-the-soil-of-our-hard-lives-o_1413105.jpg) > [And the earth under your feet, the rain over your face upturned, the stars spinning all around you in the brazen glory:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-voskamp/and-the-earth-under-your-feet-the-rain-over-your-face-upturned-the-2/) [Ann Voskamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-voskamp/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6d7/ann-voskamp-729_beautiful_and-the-earth-under-your-feet-the-rain-o_1783349.jpg) > [The bravest love is wildly faithful and it falls hard again every morning... It knows what we seek may be found in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-voskamp/the-bravest-love-is-wildly-faithful-and-it-falls-hard-again-every/) [Ann Voskamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-voskamp/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/06a/ann-voskamp-729_advice_the-bravest-love-is-wildly-faithful-and_1117101.png) > [The wrinkled man in the wheelchair with the legs wrapped, the girl with her face punctured deep with the teeth marks of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-voskamp/the-wrinkled-man-in-the-wheelchair-with-the-legs-wrapped-the-girl/) [Ann Voskamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-voskamp/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ea1/ann-voskamp-729_beautiful_the-wrinkled-man-in-the-wheelchair-with_441038.jpg) > [“And the earth under your feet, the rain over your face upturned, the stars spinning all around you in the brazen glory:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-voskamp/and-the-earth-under-your-feet-the-rain-over-your-face-upturned-the/) [Ann Voskamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-voskamp/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/556/ann-voskamp-729_ann-voskamp_and-the-earth-under-your-feet-the-rain-o_1493795.png) ## Other authors on Nature of Beauty - [Lailah Gifty Akita 97 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nature-of-beauty/lailah-gifty-akita/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-william-shakespeare-95899.jpg) William Shakespeare 16 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nature-of-beauty/william-shakespeare/) - [Ralph Waldo Emerson 12 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nature-of-beauty/ralph-waldo-emerson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-victor-hugo-93504.jpg) Victor Hugo 11 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nature-of-beauty/victor-hugo/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-tullian-tchividjian-92416.jpg) Tullian Tchividjian 11 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nature-of-beauty/tullian-tchividjian/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-dietrich-bonhoeffer-29418.jpg) Dietrich Bonhoeffer 11 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nature-of-beauty/dietrich-bonhoeffer/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b017/author-max-lucado-65870.jpg) Max Lucado 10 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nature-of-beauty/max-lucado/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b008/author-edmund-burke-31567.jpg) Edmund Burke 10 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nature-of-beauty/edmund-burke/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b013/author-john-calvin-51107.jpg) John Calvin 9 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nature-of-beauty/john-calvin/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b006/author-charles-spurgeon-22605.jpg) Charles Spurgeon 9 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nature-of-beauty/charles-spurgeon/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b013/author-john-dryden-51272.jpg) John Dryden 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nature-of-beauty/john-dryden/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b006/author-cathleen-falsani-21678.jpg) Cathleen Falsani 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nature-of-beauty/cathleen-falsani/) ## More by Ann Voskamp > [We only enter into the full life if our faith gives thanks. Because how else do we accept His free gift of salvation if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-voskamp/we-only-enter-into-the-full-life-if-our-faith-gives-thanks-because/) [Ann Voskamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-voskamp/) > [The answer to deep anxiety is the deep adoration of God.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-voskamp/the-answer-to-deep-anxiety-is-the-deep-adoration-of-god/) [Ann Voskamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-voskamp/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-voskamp/trauma-s-storm-can-mask-the-christ-and-feelings-can-lie-i-draw-all/) [Ann Voskamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-voskamp/) > [“How long does it take for your soul to recognize that your life is full? The slower the living, the greater the sense of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-voskamp/how-long-does-it-take-for-your-soul-to-recognize-that-your-life-is/) [Ann Voskamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-voskamp/) > [“For forty long years, God's people daily eat manna - a substance whose name literally mans 'What is it?' Hungry, they choose to gather…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-voskamp/for-forty-long-years-god-s-people-daily-eat-manna-a-substance-whose/) [Ann Voskamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-voskamp/) > [The real romantics imagine greying and sagging and wrinkling as the deepening of something sacred.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-voskamp/the-real-romantics-imagine-greying-and-sagging-and-wrinkling-as-the/) [Ann Voskamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-voskamp/) > [Scales always lie. They don't make a scale that ever told the truth about value, about worth, about significance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-voskamp/scales-always-lie-they-don-t-make-a-scale-that-ever-told-the-truth/) [Ann Voskamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-voskamp/) > [Darkness transfigures into light, bad transfigures into good, grief transfigures into grace, empty transfigures into full. God wastes nothing – ‘makes everything work out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-voskamp/darkness-transfigures-into-light-bad-transfigures-into-good-grief/) [Ann Voskamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-voskamp/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-voskamp/and-the-saddest-of-all-may-be-when-we-give-away-our-lives-to/) [Ann Voskamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-voskamp/) > [“Satan's sin becomes the first sin of all humanity: the sin of ingratitude .”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-voskamp/satan-s-sin-becomes-the-first-sin-of-all-humanity-the-sin-of/) [Ann Voskamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-voskamp/) > [Simplicity is never a matter of circumstances; simplicity is a matter of focus. So in the midst of educating and parenting our children, we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-voskamp/simplicity-is-never-a-matter-of-circumstances-simplicity-is-a-matter/) [Ann Voskamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-voskamp/) > [Every day, with every word, we get to decide: Do we mar the world, or mark the world?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-voskamp/every-day-with-every-word-we-get-to-decide-do-we-mar-the-world-or/) [Ann Voskamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-voskamp/) > [Thanksgiving-giving thanks in everything-prepares the way that God might show us His fullest salvation in Christ.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-voskamp/thanksgiving-giving-thanks-in-everything-prepares-the-way-that-god/) [Ann Voskamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-voskamp/) > [Practice is the hardest part of learning, and training is the essence of transformation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-voskamp/practice-is-the-hardest-part-of-learning-and-training-is-the-essence/) [Ann Voskamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-voskamp/) > [Every moment I live, I live bowed to something. And if I don't see God, I'll bow down before something else.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-voskamp/every-moment-i-live-i-live-bowed-to-something-and-if-i-don-t-see-god/) [Ann Voskamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-voskamp/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nature-of-beauty/ann-voskamp/#itemlist", "name": "11 Nature of Beauty Quotes By Ann Voskamp", "numberOfItems": 11, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“In the endless cycle of grace, He gives us gifts to serve the world.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ann Voskamp" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-voskamp/in-the-endless-cycle-of-grace-he-gives-us-gifts-to-serve-the-world/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/487/ann-voskamp-729_grace_in-the-endless-cycle-of-grace-he-gives-u_1886953.png", "contentUrl": 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It knows what we seek may be…” — Ann Voskamp", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 10, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The wrinkled man in the wheelchair with the legs wrapped, the girl with her face punctured deep with the teeth marks of a dog, the mess of the world, and I see - this, all this, is what the French call d'un beau affreux, what the Germans call hubsch-hasslich - the ugly-beautiful. That which is perceived as ugly transfigures into beautiful. What the postimpressionist painter Paul Gauguin expressed as 'Le laid peut etre beau' - The ugly can be beautiful. 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