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When the heart and mind focus on things unseen - that's when there's a visible change in us. — Ann Voskamp

And when I give thanks for the seemingly microscopic, I make a place for God to grow within me. — Ann Voskamp

A pantheist's god is a passive god, but omnipresent God is Beauty who demands worship, passion, and the sacrifice of a life, for He owns it. — Ann Voskamp

If I don't have words, it's a sign I'm not reading enough. — Ann Voskamp

God can enter into me, even me, and use these hands, these feet, to be His love, a love that goes on and on and on forever, endless cycle of grace. — Ann Voskamp

The moment when you are most repelled by a child's behavior, that is your warning light to draw the very closest to that child. — Ann Voskamp

If the Church is a body, and the body is a business, isn't that the same thing as prostitution? — Ann Voskamp

I am a mother-tired, but when my soul doth magnify, my time doth magnify. — Ann Voskamp

A day is a pocket of possibility and it's always there, waiting for your willing hand. — Ann Voskamp

Pantheism, seeing the natural world as divine, is a very different thing than seeing divine God present in all things — Ann Voskamp

Because One died for me that I might breathe this breath ... It's all a gift. — Ann Voskamp

Thanks makes now a sanctuary. — Ann Voskamp

Start with a simple request, making it the refrain of your day: 'God, open the eyes of my heart.' This journey must be Spirit-led, every day. — Ann Voskamp

Take the pain that is given, give thanks for it, and transform it into a joy that fulfills all emptiness. — Ann Voskamp

Suffering is not a problem that needs a solution as much as it's an experience that needs compassion. Because — Ann Voskamp

Could a name be any shorter? Three letters without even the flourish of an e. Ann, a trio of curves and lines.
It means "full of grace". — Ann Voskamp

Prayer without ceasing is only possible in a life of continual thanks. — Ann Voskamp

Life-changing gratitude does not fasten to a life unless nailed through with one very specific nail at a time. — Ann Voskamp

A life contemplating the blessings of Christ becomes a life acting the love of Christ. — Ann Voskamp

Generosity does give birth to intimacy - but there's a far deeper intimacy when we're generous in sharing our brokenness. — Ann Voskamp

That is what a shadow is, and empty space, a hole in the light. Evil is this - a hole in the goodness of God. — Ann Voskamp

A simplified Christmas isn't about circumstances as much as it is about focus. — Ann Voskamp

Without God's Word as a lens, the world warps. — Ann Voskamp

Our fall is always first a failure to give thanks. — Ann Voskamp

I'm not a fast writer at all. I come empty and wait upon the Lord. So it really is all a waiting process, a patient process. — Ann Voskamp

Who would ever know the greater graces of comfort and perserverance, mercy and forgiveness, patience and courage, if no shadows fell over a life? — Ann Voskamp

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

Homemaking is about making a home, not about making perfection. — Ann Voskamp

Gratitude for the seemingly insignificant - a seed - this plants the giant miracle. — Ann Voskamp

Gratitude's not a natural posture. The prince of darkness is ultimately a spoiled ingrate, and I've spent most of my life as kin to the fist-shaker. — Ann Voskamp

Pick up a yardstick to measure your life against anyone else's, and you've just picked up a stick and beaten up your own soul. — Ann Voskamp

Stress isn't only a joy stealer. The way we respond to it can be sin. — Ann Voskamp

A lack of doxology leads to depravity. — Ann Voskamp

The only way to fight a feeling is with a feeling. — Ann Voskamp

Joy is always a function of gratitude - and gratitude is always a function of perspective. — Ann Voskamp

Entertaining the mind with trivial pretties when I haven't bowed the head and heart in a prayer longer than five minutes in a week. — Ann Voskamp

I hunger for filling in a world that is starved. — Ann Voskamp

Contemplative simplicity isn't a matter of circumstances; it's a matter of focus. — Ann Voskamp

Every breath is a battle between grudgery and gratitude. Give thanks ... and you win joy. — Ann Voskamp

Instead of giving someone a piece of your mind, it turns out far better if you give them a piece of your heart. — Ann Voskamp

In a world addicted to speed, I blur the moments into one unholy smear. — Ann Voskamp

I think the fall in Eden was ultimately a failure to give thanks. — Ann Voskamp

Faith is in the gaze of a soul. — Ann Voskamp

Eucharisteo makes the knees the vantage point of a life. — Ann Voskamp

My own wild desire to protect my joy at all costs is the exact force that kills my joy. Flames need oxygen to light, Flames need a bit of wind. — Ann Voskamp

Scales always lie. They don't make a scale that ever told the truth about value, about worth, about significance. — Ann Voskamp

Real Womanhood isn't a function of becoming a great mother, but of being loved by your Great Father. — Ann Voskamp

Are stress and worry evidence of a soul too lazy, too undisciplined, to keep gaze fixed on God? — Ann Voskamp

Simplicity is not a matter of circumstance; it is a matter of focus. — Ann Voskamp

We want clarity
and God gives a call. We want a road map
and God gives a relationship. We want answers
and God gives His hand. — Ann Voskamp

Just that maybe ... maybe you don't want to change the story, because you don't know what a different ending holds. — Ann Voskamp

Get this, kids - how a man proposes isn't what makes him romantic. It's how a man purposes to lay down his life that makes him romantic. — Ann Voskamp

It's habits that can imprison you and it's habits that can free you. But when thanks to God becomes a habit - so joy in God becomes your life. — Ann Voskamp

Thanksgiving is inherent to a true salvation experience; thanksgiving is necessary to live the well, whole, 'fullest' life. — Ann Voskamp

To lack faith perhaps isn't as much an intellectual disbelief in the existence of God as fear and distrust that there is a good God. — Ann Voskamp

God appoints people who do disappoint - to point to a God who never disappoints. — Ann Voskamp

The real problem of life is never a lack of time. The real problem of life - in my life - is lack of thanksgiving. — Ann Voskamp

Christian hands never clasp and He doesn't give gifts for gain because a gift can never stop being a gift
it is always meant to be given. — Ann Voskamp

Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus. — Ann Voskamp

Satan prowls but he's a lion on a leash — Ann Voskamp

Sometimes you don't know when you're taking the first step through a door until you're already inside. — Ann Voskamp

I want a life that makes music - not just practices the piano. — Ann Voskamp

a mothers labor and delivery never ends, and you just have to keep remembering to breathe — Ann Voskamp

The brave baring of all the broken in their brokenness can offer the miracle of communion. Never be afraid of being a broken thing. — Ann Voskamp

More important than a clean house is a close family. — Ann Voskamp

Busy is a choice. Stress is a choice. Joy is a choice. Choose well. — Ann Voskamp

How to 'live' in a state of awe when life is mundane and ordinary? — Ann Voskamp

Faith is in the gaze of a soul. Faith is seeing soul's eyes upon a saving God. — Ann Voskamp

Hurry always empties a soul. — Ann Voskamp

Comparison is a thug that robs your joy. But it's even more than that - Comparison makes you a thug who beats down somebody - or your soul. — Ann Voskamp

The real romantics are the boring ones - they let another heart bore a hole deep into theirs. — Ann Voskamp

Christ at the end of a cross can upend whole worlds and everything lands aright. — Ann Voskamp