Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
Author
Writer
Way
Presence
Always
Stay
Present
Eyes
Practice
Eye
Change
Giving
Thanks

More quotes by Ann Voskamp

Image
Like the wind, Grace finds us wherever we are and won't leave us however we were found.
Ann Voskamp
Image
In a world addicted to speed, I blur the moments into one unholy smear.
Ann Voskamp
Image
Grace is the only thing that is ever enough.
Ann Voskamp
Image
Just that maybe … maybe you don’t want to change the story, because you don’t know what a different ending holds.
Ann Voskamp
Image
The busyness of your life leaves little room for the source of your life.
Ann Voskamp
Image
Gratitude for the seemingly insignificant—a seed—this plants the giant miracle.
Ann Voskamp
Image
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.
Ann Voskamp
Image
You will be most remembered-by what brought you most joy.
Ann Voskamp
Image
What is time for if not to bless?
Ann Voskamp
Image
Going ahead in the midst of the stressful circumstances and giving thanks in that moment - you can't simultaneously feel stress and gratitude at the same time. So as a parent, to go ahead and start to give thanks to God resets the whole family.
Ann Voskamp
Image
Satan prowls but he’s a lion on a leash
Ann Voskamp
Image
Isn't falling in love always the fullest life?
Ann Voskamp
Image
Life is so urgent it necessitates living slow.
Ann Voskamp
Image
Busy is a choice. Stress is a choice. Joy is a choice. Choose well.
Ann Voskamp
Image
Our fall is always first a failure to give thanks.
Ann Voskamp
Image
We only enter into the full life if our faith gives thanks. Because how else do we accept His free gift of salvation if not with thanksgiving? Thanksgiving is the evidence of our acceptance of whatever He gives. Thanksgiving is the manifestation of our Yes! to His grace.
Ann Voskamp
Image
All fear is but the notion that God's love ends.
Ann Voskamp
Image
The only way to care for the disadvantaged - is to disadvantage yourself -which is guaranteed to turn out for your advantage.
Ann Voskamp
Image
Gratitude is at the center of a life of faith. It sounds to simple to be true, but isn't that the sign of all deep truth: so simple we're tempted to dismiss it, and so hard, it is exactly what God uses to change our hard lives.
Ann Voskamp
Image
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.
Ann Voskamp