450 Quotes by Ann Voskamp

Eucharisteo means ‘to give thanks,’ and give is a verb, something that we do. God calls me to do thanks. to give the thanks away. That thanks-giving might literally become thanks-living. That our lives become the very blessings we have received. I am blessed. I can bless. Imagine! I could let Him make me the gift! I could be the joy!

How can it be? When we’re naked and ashamed and alone in our brokenness, Christ envelops us with His intimate grace. When we’re rejected and abandoned and feel beyond wanting, Jesus cups our face: “Come close, my Beloved.” When we’re dirty and tear-stained and despairing, Jesus Christ is attracted to us and proposes undying love: “All that you’re carrying I take... and all that I am is yours.” How do you ever get over that?

Remembering with thanks is what causes us to trust – to really believe.

Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world. Sarah Ban Breathnach.

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken.

In this day, this season, miracles will grow within, unfurl, bear fruit. And the heart that makes time and space for Him to come will be a glorious place. A place of sheer, radiant defiance in the face of a world careening mad and stressed. Because each day of Advent, we will actively wait. We will wait knowing that the remaking of everything has already begun.

Please hear me, Girl: The world has enough women who know how to do their hair. It needs women who know how to do hard and holy things.

Satan prowls but he’s a lion on a leash.

Like the wind, Grace finds us wherever we are and won’t leave us however we were found.