"The wrinkled man in the wheelchair with the……" — Ann Voskamp
"The wrinkled man in the wheelchair with the legs wrapped, the girl with her face punctured deep with the teeth marks of a dog, the mess of the world, and I see - this, all this, is what the French call d'un beau affreux, what the Germans call hubsch-hasslich - the ugly-beautiful. That which is perceived as ugly transfigures into beautiful. What the postimpressionist painter Paul Gauguin expressed as 'Le laid peut etre beau' - The ugly can be beautiful. The dark can give birth to life; suffering can deliver grace."
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171 Quotes by Ann Voskamp
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Like the wind, Grace finds us wherever we are and won't leave us however we were found.
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The gift list is thinking upon His goodness – and this, this pleases Him most! And most profits my own…
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I glance back in the mirror to the concrete bridge, the one I've boldly driven straight across without second thought,…
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Satan's sin becomes the first sin of all humanity: the sin of ingratitude. Adam and Eve are, simply, painfully ungrateful…
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In counting gifts, to one thousand, more, I discover that slapping a sloppy brush of thanksgiving over everything in my…
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