Quotes by Ann Voskamp

About Ann Voskamp:

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To get where you want to go, the first question you always have to answer is Where am I? ... We only find out where we are when we find out where He is. We only find ourselves... when we find Him.

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.

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The brave who focus on all things good and all things beautiful and all things true, even in the small, who give thanks for it and discover joy even in the here and now, they are the change agents who bring fullest Light to all the world.

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Do I really smother my own joy because I believe that anger achieves more than love?

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Sometimes, too often, I don't want to muster the energy. Stress and anxiety seem easier.

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... if the rent in the canvas of our life backdrop, the losses that puncture our world, our own emptiness, might actually become places to see. To see through to God. That that which tears open our souls, those holes that splatter our sight, may actu...

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When I fully enter time’s swift current, enter into the current moment with the weight of all my attention, I slow the torrent with the weight of me all here.

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I am a hunter of beauty and I move slow and I keep the eyes wide, every fiber of every muscle sensing all wonder and this is the thrill of the hunt and I could be an expert on the life full, the beauty meat that lurks in every moment. I hunger to tas...

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I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, in all the days before I die, the moments before I sleep.

Ann Voskamp

I am a hunter of beauty and I move slow and I keep the eyes wide, every fiber of every muscle sensing all wonder and this is the thrill of the hunt and I could be an expert on the life full, the beauty meat that lurks in every moment.

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He does have surprising, secret purposes. I open a Bible, and His plans, startling, lie there barefaced. It’s hard to believe it, when I read it, and I have to come back to it many times, feel long across those words, make sure they are real. His l...

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And it's the 'Word of God' that turns the rocks in the mouth to loaves on the tongue. That fills our emptiness with the true and real good, 'that makes the eyes see', the body full of light.

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Without God's Word as a lens, the world warps.

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I wear the lens of the Word and all the world transfigures into the Beauty of Christ and 'everything is eucharisteo'.

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Our fall was, has always been, and always will be, that we aren’t satisfied in God and what He gives. We hunger for something more, something other.

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From all of our beginnings, we keep reliving the Garden story.

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Can God be counted on? Count blessings and find out how many of His bridges have already held.

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Count blessings and discover Who can be counted on.

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I know the theological answers, but do my blood and my pulse?

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Just that maybe … maybe you don’t want to change the story, because you don’t know what a different ending holds.

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Author Bio

  • NameAnn Voskamp
  • DescriptionCanadian writer
  • BornAugust 10, 1973
  • ProfessionWriter