Quotes from Ann Voskamp

If trust must be earned, hasn't God unequivocally earned our trust with the bark on the raw wounds, the thorns pressed into the brow, your name on the cracked lips.

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

Of asking nothing of the reader - but offering a still, quiet oasis in the cybersphere to go vertical with God. An island of stillness to know that He is God.

Holy joy lies in the habit of murmuring thanks to God for the smallest of graces.

God is always good and we are always loved... even when what He gives may appear ugly.

The Word God wastes nothing and He heals two broken hearts with one story - the reader and the writer.

God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: joy.

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

We don't see the material world for what it is meant to be: the means to communion with God.... There is a belief missing, that God is good and that he gives good gifts.

Because nothing is greater and we have no greater need, God gives God.

The highest form of prayer is to the goodness of God. . . . God only desires that our soul cling to him with all of its strength, in particular, that it clings to his goodness.

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

The book [ One Thousand Gifts] took just over a year to write, on the fringe hours, early and late, around home educating 6 kids and farming and blogging.

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

My husband is Dutch, and his family, when you sat down to eat food at the table, you never left the table until you ate living bread and drank living water. They never left the table until they'd read Scripture together. So morning, lunch, suppertime, Scripture was always read at the table, and then there was prayer to close.

The prayers we weave into the matching of socks, the stirring of oatmeal, the reading of stories, they survive fire.

Worry is the facade of taking action when prayer really is.

Adults are tempted to produce and perform Christmas for their kids and their families, and they arrive at Christmas Day weary and disillusioned.

I write a chapter, then edit it and edit it and edit it and edit it. I don't think we mine creativity from within. It's bestowed from on high, from God.

Learning slowly to not be so reactionary while inserting verbal gratitude into stressful situations is almost like being healed of mental blindness.

The real romantics imagine greying and sagging and wrinkling as the deepening of something sacred.

How long does it take your soul to realize that your life is full? The slower the living, the greater the sense of fullness and satisfaction.

We live in a broken world - and for the life of me I can't get it all right. But Jesus takes all our broken messes and He makes them, by His grace, into a mosaic of grace.

You've got to use the life you've been given to give others life