29 Quotes by Ann Voskamp
Ann Voskamp is a Canadian author and blogger known for her bestselling book "One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are." Voskamp's writing often focuses on themes of gratitude, faith, and living a meaningful life. She has a large online following and has been recognized as one of the most influential Christian writers of the past decade. (Bio)
Ann Voskamp Quotes
When grief is deepest, words are fewest. (Meaning)
Busy is a choice. Stress is a choice. Joy is a choice. Choose well. (Meaning)
Like the wind, Grace finds us wherever we are and won't leave us however we were found.
The brave who focus on all things good and all things beautiful and all things true, even in the small, who give thanks for it and discover joy even in the here and now, they are the change agents who bring fullest light to all the world.
Being joyful isn't what makes you grateful. Being grateful is what makes you joyful.
The moment when you are most repelled by a child's behavior, that is your warning light to draw the very closest to that child.
There is unwavering peace today when an uncertain tomorrow is trusted to an unchanging God.
We give thanks to God not because of how we feel, but because of Who He is.
...the secret to joy is to keep seeking God where we doubt He is.
Joy and pain, they are but two arteries of the one heart that pumps through all those who don't numb themselves to really living.
Real joy is not found in having the best of everything but in trusting that God is making the best of everything.
How long does it take your soul to realize that your life is full? The slower the living, the greater the sense of fullness and satisfaction.
You were made for the place where your real # passion meets # compassion because there lies your real purpose.
The prayers we weave into the matching of socks, the stirring of oatmeal, the reading of stories, they survive fire.
Your naked body deserves the honor of being shared only with someone who is covenanted to never stop loving your naked soul.
Gratitude is not only a response to God in good times - it's ultimately the very will of God in hard times. Gratitude isn't only a celebration when good things happen. It's a declaration that God is good no matter what happens.
As long as thanks is possible, then joy is always possible.
You can give up the need to compete in the world- when you accept being complete in Christ.
A life contemplating the blessings of Christ becomes a life acting the love of Christ.
You've got to use the life you've been given to give others life
I don't want a Christmas you can buy. I don't want a Christmas you can make. What I want is a Christmas you can hold. A Christmas that holds me, remakes me, revives me. I want a Christmas that whispers, Jesus.
Worry is belief gone wrong. Because you don't believe that God will get it right. But peace - peace is belief that exhales. Because you believe that God's provision is everywhere - like air.
When the heart and mind focus on things unseen - that's when there's a visible change in us.
Motherhood is a hallowed place because children aren’t commonplace. Co-laboring over the sculpting of souls is a sacred vocation, a humbling privilege. Never forget.
Faith thanks God in the middle of the story.
Joy is always a function of gratitude - and gratitude is always a function of perspective.
We can worship Christ in our sanctuaries and we can pray to God on our knees, but how we treat - or neglect - the person next door, the poor, every human being, this is how we truly speak to Christ and this is how we really treat Jesus.
Eucharisteo—thanksgiving—always precedes the miracle.
Holy joy lies in the habit of murmuring thanks to God for the smallest of graces.
― Ann Voskamp Quotes
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