We only enter into the full life if our faith gives thanks. Because how else do we accept His free gift of… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Thanksgiving-giving thanks in everything-prepares the way that God might show us His fullest salvation in Christ. — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
I know there is poor and hideous suffering, and I've seen the hungry and the guns that go to war. I have… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
On the night He was betrayed Jesus broke bread and lifted it up and gave THANKS. If Jesus can give thanks in… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
The brave who focus on all things good and all things beautiful and all things true, even in the small, who give… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
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
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
Our [people's] very saving is associated with our gratitude. Which follows: if our fall in the garden was ingratitude, then salvation must… — 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
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
The practice of giving thanks...eucharisteo...this is the way we practice the presence of God, stay present to His presence, and it is… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
The greatest compliment of the book [One Thousand Gifts]? Maybe the Muslim man in Iraq who was given the book and came… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Joy is the realest reality, the fullest life, and joy is always given, never grasped. God gives gifts and I give thanks… — 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
Giving thanks is that: making the canyon of pain into a megaphone to proclaim the ultimate goodness of God when Satan and… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Is the height of my chara joy dependent on the depths of my eucharisteo thanks? — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“When we lay the soil of our hard lives opened the rain of grace and let Joy permeate our cracked and dry… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
We give thanks to God not because of how we feel, but because of Who He is. — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Holy joy lies in the habit of murmuring thanks to God for the smallest of graces. — 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