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
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
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
I didn't (and still don't) have comments [in my blog]. It's about simply writing for an audience of One. — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
I'm not a fast writer at all. I come empty and wait upon the Lord. So it really is all a waiting… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
The Word God wastes nothing and He heals two broken hearts with one story - the reader and the writer. — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Really good writing, from my perspective, runs a lot like a visual on the screen. You need to create that kind of… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Writing is this act of faith - a bit like driving in the fog: you can hardly see just in front of… — 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
Expose your life to real need. Visit a developing a country. Take a short term mission trip. Write an inmate, send a… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“If it were up to me..." and then the words pound, desperate and hard, "I'd write this story differently."... "Just that maybe...… — 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
I write a chapter, then edit it and edit it and edit it and edit it. I don't think we mine creativity… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
I wonder if the greatest challenges was to keep pressing into [writing] when I had never been here before. I felt like… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
It's the greatest compliment when the writer becomes invisible in the whole process. — 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
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