450 Quotes by Ann Voskamp

God doesn't want your leftovers. God wants your love overtures, your first-overs, because He is your first love.

God is good and I am always loved.

We're not giving what we're called to give, unless that giving affects how we live - affects what we put on our plate and where we make our home and hang our hat and what kind of threads we've got to have on our back. Surplus Giving is the leftover you can afford to give; Sacrificial Giving is the love gift that changes how you live - because the love of Christ has changed you. God doesn't want your leftovers. God wants your love overtures, your first-overs, because He is your first love.

No one told me that it would all happen at the same hallowed time: Mothering is at once the hardest and the holiest and the happiest.

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 taste life. God.

The only way to care for the disadvantaged - is to disadvantage yourself -which is guaranteed to turn out for your advantage.

We were made to live in a posture of grateful worship, and when we live in praise we live our purpose, and all the pieces fall in place, us all falling down in thanks.

Gratitude is the most fruitful way of deepening your consciousness that you are a divine choice.

All fear is but the notion that God's love ends.