Quotes from Ann Voskamp

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

When we stop fearing failure, we start being artists.

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.

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.

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

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.

It's impossible to give thanks and simultaneously feel fear

God reveals Himself in rearview mirrors.

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

Satan's sin becomes the first sin of all humanity: the sin of ingratitude. Adam and Eve are, simply, painfully ungrateful for what God gave.

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

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.