The fear is suffocating, terrorizing, and I want the remedy, and it is trust. Trust is everything. — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, in all the days before… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Sometimes, too often, I don't want to muster the energy. Stress and anxiety seem easier. — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Just that maybe … maybe you don’t want to change the story, because you don’t know what a different ending holds. — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
God doesn't want your leftovers. God wants your love overtures, your first-overs, because He is your first love. — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
I was simply writing out our family stories in my online journal, scratching out what I want to remember, what I was… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
They say time is money, but that's not true. Time is life. And if I want the fullest life, I need to… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
I think God calls us to small things, to faithfulness right where we are, to just do the next thing. I was… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Research actually indicates that if you write down what you're grateful for, it increases your happiness by 25 percent. And who doesn't… — 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
We're not giving what we're called to give, unless that giving affects how we live - affects what we put on our… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
I don't want a Christmas you can buy. I don't want a Christmas you can make. What I want is a Christmas… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
We want clarity -- and God gives a call. We want a road map --- and God gives a relationship. We want… — 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
I don't really want more time; I just want enough time. Time to breathe deep and time to see real and time… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Do I really smother my own joy because I believe that anger achieves more than love? That Satan's way is more powerful,… — 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
![“Maybe the woman who was handed the book [One Thousand Gifts] by a friend the morning before she had an abortion scheduled - and read the book and realized that this pregnancy that she didn't want - perhaps it too could be a gift from God? And then she said showed me the photo of this laughing 5…” quote by Ann Voskamp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/15b/ann-voskamp-729_abortion_maybe-the-woman-who-was-handed-the-book_2959506.jpg)
