Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
Author
Writer
Christian
Given
Clasp
Doesn
Gifts
Hands
Gain
Give
Gains
Giving
Meant
Always
Gift
Never
Stop

More quotes by Ann Voskamp

Image
When you're most wounded by words run to the only Word that always brings healing.
Ann Voskamp
Image
I want a life that makes music - not just practices the piano.
Ann Voskamp
Image
When grief is deepest, words are fewest.
Ann Voskamp
Image
Sometimes you don’t know when you’re taking the first step through a door until you’re already inside.
Ann Voskamp
Image
Praying with eyes wide open is the only way to pray without ceasing.
Ann Voskamp
Image
God reveals Himself in rearview mirrors.
Ann Voskamp
Image
The only way to fight a feeling is with a feeling.
Ann Voskamp
Image
I wonder if the greatest challenges was to keep pressing into [writing] when I had never been here before. I felt like Abraham - being called to something that he didn't know how to get to.
Ann Voskamp
Image
I don't really want more time I just want enough time. Time to breathe deep and time to see real and time to laugh long, time to give You glory and rest deep and sing joy and just enough time in a day not to feel hounded, pressed, driven, or wild to get it all done-yesterday.
Ann Voskamp
Image
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
Image
Stress isn't only a joy stealer. The way we respond to it can be sin.
Ann Voskamp
Image
Motherhood is a hallowed place because children aren’t commonplace. Co-laboring over the sculpting of souls is a sacred vocation, a humbling privilege. Never forget.
Ann Voskamp
Image
That which tears open our souls, those holes that splatter our sight, may actually become the thin, open places to see through the mess of this place to the heart-aching beauty beyond. To Him. To the God whom we endlessly crave.
Ann Voskamp
Image
I hunger for filling in a world that is starved.
Ann Voskamp
Image
Learning slowly to not be so reactionary while inserting verbal gratitude into stressful situations is almost like being healed of mental blindness.
Ann Voskamp
Image
I think it was simply word of mouth that made it a New York Times bestseller for more than 60 weeks, over a year. People being moved and changed and transformed by the book [ One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are] and wanting to share that with hurting people all around them.
Ann Voskamp
Image
God doesn't want your leftovers. God wants your love overtures, your first-overs, because He is your first love.
Ann Voskamp
Image
Without God’s Word as a lens, the world warps
Ann Voskamp
Image
Only speak words that make souls stronger.
Ann Voskamp
Image
God is patiently transfiguring all the notes of my life into the song of His Son.
Ann Voskamp