Quotes from Ann Voskamp

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

When we stop fearing failure, we start being artists.

We don't see the material world for what it is meant to be: the means to communion with God.... There is a belief missing, that God is good and that he gives good gifts.

Really good writing, from my perspective, runs a lot like a visual on the screen. You need to create that kind of detail and have credibility with the reader, so the reader knows that you were really there, that you really experienced it, that you know the details. That comes out of seeing.

The Word God wastes nothing and He heals two broken hearts with one story - the reader and the writer.

By default, most of us have taken the dare to simply survive. Exist. Get through. For the most part, we live numb to life - we've grown weary and apathetic and jaded... and wounded.

Pick up a yardstick to measure your life against anyone else's, and you've just picked up a stick and beaten up your own soul.

And when I give thanks for the seemingly microscopic, I make a place for God to grow within me.

I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give thanks the heavy perfume of wild roses in early July and the song of crickets on summer humid nights and the rivers that run and the stars that rise and the rain that falls and all the good things that a good God gives.

It's impossible to give thanks and simultaneously feel fear

Homemaking is about making a home, not about making perfection.

You've got to use the life you've been given to give others life.