We were made to live in a posture of grateful worship, and when we live in praise we live our purpose, and… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“When service is unto people, the bones can grow weary, the frustration deep. Because, agrees Dorothy Sayers, 'whenever man is made the… — 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
“Slay the idol of the seen, break the idols of performance, and believe the state of my house doesn't reflect the state… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
My husband is Dutch, and his family, when you sat down to eat food at the table, you never left the table… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
The prayers we weave into the matching of socks, the stirring of oatmeal, the reading of stories, they survive fire. — 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
“Prayer without ceasing is only possible in a life of continual thanks.” — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“Entertaining the mind with trivial pretties when I haven't bowed the head and heart in a prayer longer than five minutes in… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“When service is unto people, the bones can grow weary, the frustration deep. Because, agrees Dorothy Sayers, "whenever man is made the… — 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
