Latest Ann Voskamp Quotes from Interviews

• Vivimos en un mundo roto - y por mi vida que no puedo hacerlo todo bien. Pero Jesús toma todos nuestros líos rotos y los convierte, por Su gracia, en un mosaico de gracia.

  Ann Voskamp

  Jesús, Roto, Gracia

  Fuente: www.hslda.org

• I started blogging in 2004, light years ago on the Web. And I began because I have this handicap - I can't figure out my life or see God clearly unless I untangle my life again with words.

  Ann Voskamp

  Light, Years, Blogging

  Source: churchleaders.com

• I think it was simply word of mouth that made it a New York Times bestseller for more than 60 weeks, over a year. People being moved and changed and transformed by the book [ One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are] and wanting to share that with hurting people all around them.

  Ann Voskamp

  Hurt, New York, Book

  Source: churchleaders.com

• The book [ One Thousand Gifts] took just over a year to write, on the fringe hours, early and late, around home educating 6 kids and farming and blogging. And I wonder if the greatest challenges was to keep pressing into it when I had never been here before. I felt like Abraham - being called to something that he didn't know how to get to.

  Ann Voskamp

  Libro, Escritura, Niños

  Source: churchleaders.com

• Unbeknownst to me, two readers of the posts, both published authors, contacted their agent, Bill Jensen, within 24 hours of each other, encouraging him to drop me a line. Which he did. He shared his extensive publishing background with me, and prayerfully offered to work out a proposal and to see if God opened any publishing doors? I never get over the unexpected ways of God.

  Ann Voskamp

  Doors, Two, Work Out

  Source: churchleaders.com

• I think God calls us to small things, to faithfulness right where we are, to just do the next thing. I was simply writing out our family stories in my online journal, scratching out what I want to remember, what I was wrestling out with God.

  Ann Voskamp

  Wrestling, Writing, Thinking

  Source: churchleaders.com

• It's the greatest compliment when the writer becomes invisible in the whole process.

  Ann Voskamp

  Compliment, Invisible, Process

  "Interview with 'One Thousand Gifts' Author, Ann Voskamp". Interview with Frank Viola, churchleaders.com. February 11, 2013.

• Really, the greatest compliments about a book [One Thousand Gifts] are never about the book, or the author of the book, but about the reader and God and how the pages helped them connect at a deeper level.

  Ann Voskamp

  Book, Levels, Pages

  Source: www.churchleaders.com

• Maybe the man who said that his doctor had pulled him off Prozac because One Thousand Gifts and taking the dare to write 1,000 gifts was healing deep places in him and leading him to *experience* joy.

  Ann Voskamp

  Healing, Writing, Men

  Source: www.churchleaders.com

• Maybe the woman who was handed the book [One Thousand Gifts] by a friend the morning before she had an abortion scheduled - and read the book and realized that this pregnancy that she didn't want - perhaps it too could be a gift from God? And then she said showed me the photo of this laughing 5 month old boy.

  Ann Voskamp

  Morning, Pregnancy, Book

  Source: www.churchleaders.com

• The greatest compliment of the book [One Thousand Gifts]? Maybe the Muslim man in Iraq who was given the book and came to a saving knowledge of Jesus, wanted to live his life in thanks to God?

  Ann Voskamp

  Jesus, Book, Men

  Source: www.churchleaders.com

• That little burning bush that is the signature of the blog - it echoes Elizabeth Barrett Browning's words.

  Ann Voskamp

  Echoes, Signatures, Burning

  Source: www.churchleaders.com

• The blog is meant to be a bit of a side chapel - a place to slip into and still and encounter the glory of God - and come away again with a fresh sense that your life, right where you are, is a holy experience - that God dwells with you and in you, and where you are is holy ground, worthy of reverence and celebration and wonder.

  Ann Voskamp

  Holy Ground, Encounters, Sides

  Source: www.churchleaders.com

• Of asking nothing of the reader - but offering a still, quiet oasis in the cybersphere to go vertical with God. An island of stillness to know that He is God.

  Ann Voskamp

  Islands, Oasis, Offering

  "Interview with 'One Thousand Gifts' Author, Ann Voskamp". Interview with Frank Viola, churchleaders.com. February 11, 2013.

• I didn't (and still don't) have comments [in my blog]. It's about simply writing for an audience of One.

  Ann Voskamp

  Writing, Audience Of One, Comment

  Source: www.churchleaders.com

• So my blog wasn't about "platform" but really, it was everything you are not "supposed" to do in blogging.

  Ann Voskamp

  Blogging, Platforms, Blogs

  Source: www.churchleaders.com

• I began [blogging] because I have this handicap - I can't figure out my life or see God clearly unless I untangle my life again with words.

  Ann Voskamp

  Blogging, Figures, Handicaps

  Source: www.churchleaders.com

• I started blogging in 2004, light years ago on the Web.

  Ann Voskamp

  Light, Years, Blogging

  "Interview with 'One Thousand Gifts' Author, Ann Voskamp". Interview with Frank Viola, churchleaders.com. February 11, 2013.

• Kathie Lee [Gifford] invited me to come to New York for lunch with her - and surprised with an unexpected shout out again for One Thousand Gifts on the show and graciously asked a few questions on camera. Indebted to her and the people who read and looked for Jesus in the pages and shared the hope and joy of Him - right where they are.

  Ann Voskamp

  Jesus, New York, Lunch

  Source: www.churchleaders.com

• A year after One Thousand Gifts had released, Kathie Lee Gifford of the Today Show, named it one of her favorite things - the gift that will radically change your life. She shared the title with PEOPLE magazine as one of favorite books - quite astonishing for an evangelical Christian book.

  Ann Voskamp

  Christian, Book, Years

  Source: www.churchleaders.com

• I think it was simply word of mouth that made it a New York Timesbestseller for more than 60 weeks, over a year. People being moved and changed and transformed by the book [One Thousand Gifts] and wanting to share that with hurting people all around them.

  Ann Voskamp

  Hurt, New York, Book

  "Interview with 'One Thousand Gifts' Author, Ann Voskamp". Interview with Frank Viola, churchleaders.com. February 11, 2013.

• Writing is this act of faith - a bit like driving in the fog: you can hardly see just in front of you. But you trust God's leading you and you just write into the space you can see ahead of you.

  Ann Voskamp

  Writing, Fog, Space

  Source: www.churchleaders.com

• I wonder if the greatest challenges was to keep pressing into [writing] when I had never been here before. I felt like Abraham - being called to something that he didn't know how to get to.

  Ann Voskamp

  Writing, Challenges, Wonder

  Source: www.churchleaders.com

• The book [ One Thousand Gifts] took just over a year to write, on the fringe hours, early and late, around home educating 6 kids and farming and blogging.

  Ann Voskamp

  Libro, Inicio, Escritura

  Source: www.churchleaders.com

• [Bill Jensen] shared his extensive publishing background with me, and prayerfully offered to work out a proposal and to see if God opened any publishing doors? I never get over the unexpected ways of God.

  Ann Voskamp

  Doors, Work Out, Bills

  Source: www.churchleaders.com

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