Ann Voskamp

Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus.

— Ann Voskamp

Only speak words that make souls stronger.

— Ann Voskamp

Hurry always empties a soul.

— Ann Voskamp

“I am blessed. I can bless.”

— Ann Voskamp

God reveals Himself in rearview mirrors.

— Ann Voskamp

What is time for if not to bless?

— Ann Voskamp

A lack of doxology leads to depravity.

— Ann Voskamp

When grief is deepest, words are fewest.

— Ann Voskamp

Sometimes, too often, I don't want to muster the energy. Stress and anxiety seem easier.

— Ann Voskamp

Love doesn't necessarily mean bless or agree with, it means sacrifice for and suffer with.

— Ann Voskamp

The frame of a soul was never made for fame. The frame of a soul was made to serve.

— Ann Voskamp

God only allows pain if He’s allowing something new to be born.

— Ann Voskamp

Homemaking is about making a home, not about making perfection.

— Ann Voskamp

“Without expectations, what can topple the surprising wonder of the moment?”

— Ann Voskamp

... be radical about grace and relentless about truth and resolute about holiness...

— Ann Voskamp

As long as thanks is possible, then joy is always possible.

— Ann Voskamp

“All those years thinking I was saved and had said my yes to God, but was really living the no.”

— Ann Voskamp

We were made to live in a posture of grateful worship, and when we live in praise we live our purpose, and…

— Ann Voskamp

“Oh yes, I know you, the 'busyness' of your life leaving little room for the 'source' of your life.”

— Ann Voskamp

You were made for the place where your real # passion meets # compassion because there lies your real purpose.

— Ann Voskamp

Parenting is about preparing children to get along with each other, to get along with you and without you, and that it's…

— Ann Voskamp

In counting gifts, to one thousand, more, I discover that slapping a sloppy brush of thanksgiving over everything in my life leaves…

— Ann Voskamp

“Long, I am woman who speaks but one language, the language of the fall--discontentment and self-condemnation, the critical eye and the never…

— Ann Voskamp

“Love isn’t about how much money someone’s willing to lay down for you, but about how much life they’re willing to lay…

— Ann Voskamp

“How does it save the world to reject unabashed joy when it is joy that saves us? Rejecting joy to stand in…

— Ann Voskamp

We all get to choose where we set up the stage of our lives - before the Crowds, the Court, the Congregation,…

— Ann Voskamp

Satan’s sin becomes the first sin of all humanity: the sin of ingratitude. Adam and Eve are, simply, painfully, ungrateful for what…

— Ann Voskamp

“You may believe in God, but never forget - it's God who believes in you. Every morning that the sun rises and…

— Ann Voskamp

Gratitude is not only a response to God in good times - it's ultimately the very will of God in hard times.…

— Ann Voskamp

“To receive God's gifts, to live exalted and joy filled, isn't a function of straining higher, harder, doing more, carrying long the…

— Ann Voskamp

“You are whatever you love. You are, at your very essence, not what you think, but what you love...We are all compelled…

— Ann Voskamp

We only enter into the full life if our faith gives thanks. Because how else do we accept His free gift of…

— Ann Voskamp

“My baby is five. She falls asleep in my arms . . . . Her breath is warm on my face, all…

— Ann Voskamp

The gift list is thinking upon His goodness – and this, this pleases Him most! And most profits my own soul and…

— Ann Voskamp

I glance back in the mirror to the concrete bridge, the one I've boldly driven straight across without second thought, and I…

— Ann Voskamp

“Eucharisteo, remembering with thanks, this is the bread. We take the moments as bread and give thanks and the thanks itself becomes…

— Ann Voskamp

The cynics, they can only speak of the dark, of the obvious, and this is not hard. For all it’s supposed sophistication,…

— Ann Voskamp

It is in the dark that God is passing by. The bridge and our lives shake not because God has abandoned, but…

— Ann Voskamp

He does have surprising, secret purposes. I open a Bible, and His plans, startling, lie there barefaced. It’s hard to believe it,…

— Ann Voskamp

Expose your life to real need. Visit a developing a country. Take a short term mission trip. Write an inmate, send a…

— Ann Voskamp