450 Quotes by Ann Voskamp

On the night He was betrayed Jesus broke bread and lifted it up and gave THANKS. If Jesus can give thanks in that, can we not give thanks in all?

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

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.

God’s not out to get you - He’s out to give to you.

Every day, with every word, we get to decide: Do we mar the world, or mark the world?

We can worship Christ in our sanctuaries and we can pray to God on our knees, but how we treat - or neglect - the person next door, the poor, every human being, this is how we truly speak to Christ and this is how we really treat Jesus.

Life isn't an emergency. Christ is in charge of every moment of the day; nothing catches Him off guard.

What is time for if not to bless?

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.