Fullness of joy is discovered only in the emptying of will. Ann Voskamp More Quotes by Ann Voskamp More Quotes From Ann Voskamp God gives us time. And who has time for God? Ann Voskamp giving 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 eye keys giving ...life change comes when we receive life with thanks and ask for nothing to change. Ann Voskamp thanks life-changing asks The frame of a soul was never made for fame. The frame of a soul was made to serve. Ann Voskamp soul made fame Real Love truthfully sees the flaws - and still really loves fully. Ann Voskamp truth-love flaws real This day is not a sieve, losing time. With each passing minute, each passing year, there's this deepening awareness that I am filling, gaining time. We stand on the brink of eternity. Ann Voskamp awareness losing years When your ethnicity is heaven, then all adversity offers the gift of intimacy, driving you into the home of His heart. Ann Voskamp adversity home heart Once you have tasted conviction, you can’t bear to keep swallowing complacency. Ann Voskamp complacency swallowing bears Gratitude's not a natural posture. The prince of darkness is ultimately a spoiled ingrate, and I've spent most of my life as kin to the fist-shaker. Ann Voskamp gratitude thanksgiving darkness The message of Christmas is not that we can make peace. Or that we can make love, make light, make gifts, or make this world save itself. The message of Christmas is that this world’s a mess and we can never save ourselves from ourselves and we need a Messiah. Ann Voskamp making-love light needs Really, the greatest compliments about a book [One Thousand Gifts] are never about the book, or the author of the book, but about the reader and God and how the pages helped them connect at a deeper level. Ann Voskamp pages levels book It's the greatest compliment when the writer becomes invisible in the whole process. Ann Voskamp invisible process compliment Our [people's] very saving is associated with our gratitude. Which follows: if our fall in the garden was ingratitude, then salvation must be intimately related to giving of thanks. Ann Voskamp gratitude garden fall 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 good nature rain life By default, most of us have taken the dare to simply survive. Exist. Get through. For the most part, we live numb to life - we've grown weary and apathetic and jaded... and wounded. Ann Voskamp survive live dare life I'm not a fast writer at all. I come empty and wait upon the Lord. So it really is all a waiting process, a patient process. Ann Voskamp wait patient process waiting 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 you sickness internet age 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 day weary christmas kids Measuring sticks try to rank some people as big and some people as small - but we aren't sizes. We are souls. There are no better people or worse people - there are only God-made souls. Ann Voskamp some-people small better people 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 down man romantic life
