Colleen Manning

“He prayed as he breathed, forming no words and making no specific requests, only holding his heart, like broken birds in cupped hands,”
― Ellis Peters

“This pen: this is nothing less than the driving of nails. Nails driving out my habits of discontent and driving in my habit of eucharisteo. I’m hammering in nails to pound out nails, ugly nails that Satan has pierced through the world, my heart. It starts to unfold, light in the dark, a door opening up, how all these years it’s been utterly pointless to try to wrench out the spikes of discontent. Because that habit of discontentment can only be driven out by hammering in one iron sharper. The sleek pin of gratitude. I”
― Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

“MAYBE WHOLENESS IS EMBRACING BROKENNESS AS PART OF YOUR LIFE.”
― Ann Voskamp, The Broken Way: A Daring Path into the Abundant Life

“The world has enough women who know how to do their hair. It needs women who know how to do hard and holy things”
― Ann Voskamp, The Broken Way: A Daring Path into the Abundant Life