The book [ One Thousand Gifts] took just over a year to write, on the fringe hours, early and late, around home… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Maybe the man who said that his doctor had pulled him off Prozac because One Thousand Gifts and taking the dare to… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Really, the greatest compliments about a book [One Thousand Gifts] are never about the book, or the author of the book, but… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Kathie Lee [Gifford] invited me to come to New York for lunch with her - and surprised with an unexpected shout out… — 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
A year after One Thousand Gifts had released, Kathie Lee Gifford of the Today Show, named it one of her favorite things… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
I think it was simply word of mouth that made it a New York Timesbestseller for more than 60 weeks, over a… — 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
I think it was simply word of mouth that made it a New York Times bestseller for more than 60 weeks, over… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
In counting gifts, to one thousand, more, I discover that slapping a sloppy brush of thanksgiving over everything in my life leaves… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
The book [ One Thousand Gifts] took just over a year to write, on the fringe hours, early and late, around home… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Being in a hurry. Getting to the next thing without fully entering the thing in front of me. I cannot think of… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Maybe the woman who was handed the book [One Thousand Gifts] by a friend the morning before she had an abortion scheduled… — 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