450 Quotes by Ann Voskamp

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

I don’t really want more time; I just want enough time. Time to breathe deep and time to see real and time to laugh long, time to give You glory and rest deep and sing joy and just enough time in a day not to feel hounded, pressed, driven, or wild to get it all done-yesterday.

He who carved the edges of the cosmos curved Himself into a fetal ball in the dark, tethered Himself to the uterine wall of a virgin, and lets His cells divide, light splitting all white. He gave up the heavens that were not even large enough to contain Him and lets Himself be held in a hand. The mystery so large becomes the Baby so small, and infinite God becomes infant.

Gratitude for the seemingly insignificant – a seed – this plants the giant miracle.

The art of giving is believing there is enough love in you, that you are loved enough by Him, to be made enough love to give. For.

We aren’t here to one-up one another, but to help one another up.

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

Activity for God – is not the same as intimacy with God or identity in God. And it is your intimacy with Christ that gives you your identity. You can’t experience the power of Christ, the mission of Christ, being made new in Christ, until you know who you are in Christ.

If trust must be earned, hasn’t God unequivocally earned our trust with the bark on the raw wounds, the thorns pressed into the brow, your name on the cracked lips.