Ann Voskamp
Ann Voskamp
Ann Voskampis the author of the New York Times Bestseller, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are, published by Zondervan...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth10 August 1973
CountryCanada
giving-up needs world
You can give up the need to compete in the world- when you accept being complete in Christ.
grace shadow comfort
Who would ever know the greater graces of comfort and perserverance, mercy and forgiveness, patience and courage, if no shadows fell over a life?
jesus want remakes
I don't want a Christmas you can buy. I don't want a Christmas you can make. What I want is a Christmas you can hold. A Christmas that holds me, remakes me, revives me. I want a Christmas that whispers, Jesus.
rain broken joy
When we lay the soil of our hard lives open to the rain of grace and let joy penetrate our cracked and dry places, let joy soak into our broken skin and deep crevices, life grows. How can this not be the best thing for the world? For us?
gratitude grateful positivity
Gratitude for the seemingly insignificant—a seed—this plants the giant miracle.
thanksgiving missing way-to-live
The whole of the life -- even the hard -- is made up of the minute parts, and if I miss the infinitesimals, I miss the whole. These are new language lessons, and I live them out. There is a way to live the big of giving thanks in all things. It is this: to give thanks in this one small thing. The moments will add up.
pain something-new born
God only allows pain if He’s allowing something new to be born.
gratitude life-changing grateful
Life-changing gratitude does not fasten to a life unless nailed through with one very specific nail at a time.
soul
Hurry always empties a soul.
gratitude fall grateful
We were made to live in a posture of grateful worship, and when we live in praise we live our purpose, and all the pieces fall in place, us all falling down in thanks.
lions satan leashes
Satan prowls but he’s a lion on a leash
life giving way-to-live
There is a way to live the big of giving thanks in all things. It is this: to give thanks in this one small thing. The moments will add up.
ends notion gods-love
All fear is but the notion that God's love ends.
focus simplicity matter
Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus.