More quotes by Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

"I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, in all the days before I die, the moments before I sleep."
— Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are Read More
"Being in a hurry. Getting to the next thing without fully entering the thing in front of me. I cannot think of a single advantage I've ever gained from being in a hurry. But a thousand broken and missed things, tens of thousands, lie in the wake of all the rushing.... Through all that haste I thought I was making up time. It turns out I was throwing it away."
— Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are Read More
"Christian hands never claspand He doesn't give gifts for gainbecause a gift can never stop being a gift - it is always meant to be given."
— Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are Read More
"From all of our beginnings, we keep reliving the Garden story."
— Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are Read More
"I am a hunter of beauty and I move slow and I keep the eyes wide, every fiber of every muscle sensing all wonder and this is the thrill of the hunt and I could be an expert on the life full, the beauty meat that lurks in every moment.I hunger to taste life.God."
— Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are Read More