Ann Voskamp Quotes
It's habits that can imprison you and it's habits that can free you. But when thanks to God becomes a habit - so joy in God becomes your life.
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.
...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.
Instead of giving someone a piece of your mind, it turns out far better if you give them a piece of your heart.
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.
God’s purposes are not for me to understand His plans: His plan is for me to understand Who He is.
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.
We live in a broken world - and for the life of me I can't get it all right. But Jesus takes all our broken messes and He makes them, by His grace, into a mosaic of grace.
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.
Pick up a yardstick to measure your life against anyone else's, and you've just picked up a stick and beaten up your own soul.
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.
What was intended to harm, God intended it all for good. And no matter what intends to harm you, God's arms have you. You can never be undone.
Joy is the realest reality, the fullest life, and joy is always given, never grasped. God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: joy.
When we know Christ, we always know how things are going to go...always for our good and always for His glory.
Life-changing gratitude does not fasten to a life unless nailed through with one very specific nail at a time.
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.
Giving thanks is that: making the canyon of pain into a megaphone to proclaim the ultimate goodness of God when Satan and all the world would sneer at us to recant.
Real Womanhood isn’t a function of becoming a great mother, but of being loved by your Great Father.
Gratitude for the seemingly insignificant—a seed—this plants the giant miracle.
No one told me that it would all happen at the same hallowed time: Mothering is at once the hardest and the holiest and the happiest.
I think God calls us to small things, to faithfulness right where we are, to just do the next thing.
Who would ever know the greater graces of comfort and perserverance, mercy and forgiveness, patience and courage, if no shadows fell over a life?
Our fall was, has always been, and always will be, that we aren’t satisfied in God and what He gives. We hunger for something more, something other.
There is a way to live the big of giving thanks in all things. It is this: to give thanks in this one small thing. The moments will add up.
And when I give thanks for the seemingly microscopic, I make a place for God to grow within me.
Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus.
Thanksgiving creates abundance; and the miracle of multiplying happens when I give thanks-take the just one loaf, say it is enough, and give thanks-and He miraculously makes it more than enough.
