Ann Voskamp

Ann Voskamp

"Being in a hurry. Getting to the next thing without fully entering the thing in front of me. I cannot think of a single advantage I've ever gained from being in a hurry. But a thousand broken and missed things, tens of thousands, lie in the wake of all the rushing... Through all that haste I thought I was making up time. It turns out I was throwing it away."
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"Being in a hurry. Getting to the next thing without fully entering the thing in front of me. I cannot think of a single advantage I've ever gained from being in a hurry. But a thousand broken and missed things, tens of thousands, lie in the wake of all the rushing... Through all that haste I thought I was making up time. It turns out I was throwing it away."
Ann Voskamp One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are
"Fullness of joy is discovered only in the emptying of will."
Ann Voskamp
"The practice of giving thanks...eucharisteo...this is the way we practice the presence of God, stay present to His presence, and it is always a practice of the eyes. We don't have to change what we see. Only the way we see."
Ann Voskamp
"How my eyes see, perspective, is my key to enter into His gates. I can only do so with thanksgiving. If my inner eye has God seeping up through all things, then can't I give thanks for anything? And if I can give thanks for the good things, the hard things, the absolute everything, I can enter the gates to glory. Living in His presence is fullness of joy- and seeing shows the way in."
Ann Voskamp One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are
"Joy is the realest reality, the fullest life, and joy is always given, never grasped. God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: joy."
Ann Voskamp One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are
"Lament is a cry of belief in a good God, a God who has His ear to our hearts, a God who transfigures the ugly into beauty. Complaint is the bitter howl of unbelief in any benevolent God in this moment, a distrust in the love-beat of the Father's heart."
Ann Voskamp One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are
"It is in the dark that God is passing by. The bridge and our lives shake not because God has abandoned, but the exact opposite: God is passing by. God is in the tremors. Dark is the holiest ground, the glory passing by. In the blackest, God is closest, at work, forging His perfect and right will. Though it is black and we can't see and our world seems to be free-falling and we feel utterly alone, Christ is most present to us..."
Ann Voskamp One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are
"A life contemplating the blessings of Christ becomes a life acting the love of Christ."
Ann Voskamp One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are
"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
"In a storm of struggles, I have tried to control the elements, clasp the fist tight so as to protect self and happiness. But stress can be an addiction, and worry can be our lunge for control, and we forget the answer to this moment is always yes because of Christ."
Ann Voskamp
"Romance isn't measured by how viral your proposal goes. The Internet age may try to sell you something different, but don't ever forget that viral is closely associated with sickness - so don't ever make being viral your goal."
Ann Voskamp
"I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give thanks the heavy perfume of wild roses in early July and the song of crickets on summer humid nights and the rivers that run and the stars that rise and the rain that falls and all the good things that a good God gives."
Ann Voskamp
"A simplified Christmas isn't about circumstances as much as it is about focus."
Ann Voskamp
"Adults are tempted to produce and perform Christmas for their kids and their families, and they arrive at Christmas Day weary and disillusioned."
Ann Voskamp
"I think the fall in Eden was ultimately a failure to give thanks."
Ann Voskamp
"...the secret to joy is to keep seeking God where we doubt He is."
Ann Voskamp One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are
"So now we pause. Still. Ponder. Hush. Wait. Each day of Advent, He gives you the gift of time, so you have time to be still and wait. Wait for the coming of the God in the manger who makes Himself bread for us near starved. For the Savior in swaddlings who makes Himself the robe of righteousness for us worn out. For Jesus, who makes precisely what none of us can but all of us want: Christmas."
Ann Voskamp
"I am blessed. I can bless."
Ann Voskamp
"Every moment I live, I live bowed to something. And if I don't see God, I'll bow down before something else."
Ann Voskamp
"Hurry always empties a soul."
Ann Voskamp
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