{"author":"Ann Voskamp","author_id":"Ann+Voskamp","total_quotes":119,"quotes":[{"text":"So now we pause. Still. Ponder. Hush. Wait. Each day of Advent, He gives you the gift of time, so you have time to be still and wait. Wait for the coming of the God in the manger who makes Himself bread for us near starved. For the Savior in swaddlings who makes Himself the robe of righteousness for us worn out. For Jesus, who makes precisely what none of us can but all of us want: Christmas.","author":"Ann Voskamp","tags":["christian","christmas","inspirational"],"id":1153,"author_id":"Ann+Voskamp"},{"text":"When we lay the soil of our hard lives open to the rain of grace and let joy penetrate our cracked and dry places, let joy soak into our broken skin and deep crevices, life grows. How can this not be the best thing for the world? For us?","author":"Ann Voskamp","tags":["inspirational","joy"],"id":7543,"author_id":"Ann+Voskamp"},{"text":"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.","author":"Ann Voskamp","tags":["daily-living","faith"],"id":8217,"author_id":"Ann+Voskamp"},{"text":"If the heights of our joy are measured by the depths of our gratitude, and gratitude is but a way of seeing, a spiritual perspective of smallness might offer a vital way of seeing especially conducive to gratitude.","author":"Ann Voskamp","tags":["gratitude"],"id":12612,"author_id":"Ann+Voskamp"},{"text":"All those years thinking I was saved and had said my yes to God, but was really living the no.","author":"Ann Voskamp","tags":["salvation"],"id":14207,"author_id":"Ann+Voskamp"},{"text":"I know the theological answers, but do my blood and my pulse?","author":"Ann Voskamp","tags":["answers","blood","body","pulse","theology"],"id":14224,"author_id":"Ann+Voskamp"},{"text":"The real problem of life is never a lack of time. The real problem of life - in my life - is lack of thanksgiving.","author":"Ann Voskamp","tags":["000-gifts","1","ann-voscamp","christian-living","nonfiction"],"id":20437,"author_id":"Ann+Voskamp"},{"text":"Here I can become the blessing, a little life that multiplies joy, making the larger world a better place.God can enter into me, even me, and use these hands, these feet, to be His love, a love that goes on and on and on forever, endless cycle of grace.","author":"Ann Voskamp","tags":["feet","forever","god","god-s-love","grace","hands"],"id":23142,"author_id":"Ann+Voskamp"},{"text":"Jesus embraced His not enough ... He gives thanks ... And there is more than enough. More than enough. Eucharisteo always precedes the miracle. And who doesn't need a miracle like that everyday? Thanksgiving makes time. The real problem of life is never a lack of time. The real problem of life - in my life - is lack of thanksgiving. Thanksgiving creates abundance; and he miracle of multiplying happens when I give thanks - ...It's giving thanks to God for this moment that multiplies the moments, time made enough. I am thank-full. I am time-full. Page 72.","author":"Ann Voskamp","tags":["moments","thanks","time"],"id":27826,"author_id":"Ann+Voskamp"},{"text":"Could a name be any shorter? Three letters without even the flourish of an e. Ann, a trio of curves and lines.It means “full of grace”.","author":"Ann Voskamp","tags":["ann","grace","name-meaning"],"id":30987,"author_id":"Ann+Voskamp"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":119,"pages":12,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}