450 Quotes by Ann Voskamp

Parenting is about preparing children to get along with each other, to get along with you and without you, and that it’s impossible to get along without God.

Let love break into you and mess with you and loosen you up and make you laugh and cry and give and hurt because this is the only way to really live.

So God throws open the door of this world – and enters as a baby. As the most vulnerable imaginable. Because He wants unimaginable intimacy with you. What religion ever had a god that wanted such intimacy with us that He came with such vulnerability to us? What God ever came so tender we could touch Him? So fragile that we could break Him? So vulnerable that His bare, beating heart could be hurt? Only the One who loves you to death.

What was intended to harm, God intended it all for good. And no matter what intends to harm you, God’s arms have you. You can never be undone.

Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness. Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace.

You may believe in God, but never forget – it’s God who believes in you. Every morning that the sun rises and you get to rise? That’s God saying He believes in you, that He believes in the story He’s writing through you. He believes in you as a gift the world needs.

I am more sinful and flawed than I ever dared believe, more loved and welcomed than I ever dared hope. ELYSE M. FITZPATRICK.

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.

Love doesn’t necessarily mean bless or agree with, it means sacrifice for and suffer with.