"At the last, this is what will determine a fulfilling, meaningful life, a life that, behind all the facades, every one of us longs to live: gratitude for the blessings that expresses itself by becomin..."
- Ann Voskamp
"When we stop fearing failure, we start being artists."
"He does have surprising, secret purposes. I open a Bible, and His plans, startling, lie there barefaced. It’s hard to believe it, when I read it, and I have to come back to it many times, feel long ac..."
"Practice is the hardest part of learning, and training is the essence of transformation."
"Just that maybe … maybe you don’t want to change the story, because you don’t know what a different ending holds."
"We only enter into the full life if our faith gives thanks. Because how else do we accept His free gift of salvation if not with thanksgiving? Thanksgiving is the evidence of our acceptance of whateve..."
"Forget the face of God, and forget your own name is Beloved."
"The highest form of prayer is to the goodness of God. . . . God only desires that our soul cling to him with all of its strength, in particular, that it clings to his goodness."
"I hunger for filling in a world that is starved."
"But, someone, please give me—who is born again but still so much in need of being born anew—give me the details of how to live in the waiting cocoon before the forever begins?"