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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
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
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
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
It means "full of grace". — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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