Ann Voskamp Quotes About Suffering

Quotes about: Suffering

• 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

  Sleep, Suffering, Ugly

  Ann Voskamp (2011). “One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are”, p.109, Zondervan

• I know there is poor and hideous suffering, and I've seen the hungry and the guns that go to war. I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give thanks for early light dappled through leaves and the heavy perfume of wild roses in early July and the song of crickets on humid nights and the rivers that run and the stars that rise and the rain that falls and all the good things that a good God gives.

  Ann Voskamp

  Thanksgiving, Running, Song

• The wrinkled man in the wheelchair with the legs wrapped, the girl with her face punctured deep with the teeth marks of a dog, the mess of the world, and I see - this, all this, is what the French call d'un beau affreux, what the Germans call hubsch-hasslich - the ugly-beautiful. That which is perceived as ugly transfigures into beautiful. What the postimpressionist painter Paul Gauguin expressed as 'Le laid peut etre beau' - The ugly can be beautiful. The dark can give birth to life; suffering can deliver grace.

  Ann Voskamp

  Beautiful, Girl, Dog

• Rejecting joy to stand in solidarity with the suffering doesn't rescue the suffering.

  Ann Voskamp

  Joy, Suffering, Rescue

  Ann Voskamp (2011). “One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are”, p.58, Zondervan

• Love doesn't necessarily mean bless or agree with, it means sacrifice for and suffer with.

  Ann Voskamp

  Mean, Sacrifice, Suffering

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