Ann Voskamp Quotes - Page 5

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.

Real Womanhood isn’t a function of becoming a great mother, but of being loved by your Great Father.

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.

The answer to deep anxiety is the deep adoration of God.

The only way to fight a feeling is with a feeling.

The only way to care for the disadvantaged - is to disadvantage yourself -which is guaranteed to turn out for your advantage.

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

At the last, this is what will determine a fulfilling, meaningful life, a life that, behind all the facades, every one of us longs to live: gratitude for the blessings that expresses itself by becoming the blessing.

The wrinkled man in the wheelchair with the legs wrapped, the girl with her face punctured deep with the teeth marks of a dog, the mess of the world, and I see - this, all this, is what the French call d'un beau affreux, what the Germans call hubsch-hasslich - the ugly-beautiful. That which is perceived as ugly transfigures into beautiful. What the postimpressionist painter Paul Gauguin expressed as 'Le laid peut etre beau' - The ugly can be beautiful. The dark can give birth to life; suffering can deliver grace.

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

Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus.

Gratitude is the most fruitful way of deepening your consciousness that you are a divine choice.

I fly to Paris and discover how to make love to God.

If I had the perspective of the whole, perhaps I'd see it? That which seems evil, is it a cloud to bring rain, to bring a greater good to the whole of the world? Who would ever know the greater graces of comfort and perseverance, mercy and forgiveness, patience and courage, if no shadows fell over a life?

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

In our rushing, bulls in china shops, we break our own lives.

Without God’s Word as a lens, the world warps

In counting gifts, to one thousand, more, I discover that slapping a sloppy brush of thanksgiving over everything in my life leaves me deeply thankful for very few things in my life.

God is patiently transfiguring all the notes of my life into the song of His Son.

Only speak words that make souls stronger -\-\ for once words are spoken, they may be forgiven, but may be not forgotten.

God gives the world enough of what it needs. All He asks is that we distribute what He gives.

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

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.

God gives us time. And who has time for God?

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