Motherhood is a hallowed place because children aren’t commonplace. Co-laboring over the sculpting of souls is a sacred vocation, a humbling privilege.… — 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
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
The frame of a soul was never made for fame. The frame of a soul was made to serve. — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Comparison is a thug that robs your joy. But it's even more than that - Comparison makes you a thug who beats… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Poor communication doesn’t disconnect souls. It’s the disconnected souls who poorly communicate. — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Are stress and worry evidence of a soul too lazy, too undisciplined, to keep gaze fixed on God? — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Only speak words that make souls stronger -\-\ for once words are spoken, they may be forgiven, but may be not forgotten. — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“... if the rent in the canvas of our life backdrop, the losses that puncture our world, our own emptiness, might actually… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
That which tears open our souls, those holes that splatter our sight, may actually become the thin, open places to see through… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
How long does it take your soul to realize that your life is full? The slower the living, the greater the sense… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Your naked body deserves the honor of being shared only with someone who is covenanted to never stop loving your naked soul. — 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
