Ann Voskamp Quotes

Joy is always a function of gratitude - and gratitude is always a function of perspective.

All fear is but the notion that God's love ends.

The answer to deep anxiety is the deep adoration of God.

Hurry always empties a soul.

Gratitude is the most fruitful way of deepening your consciousness that you are a divine choice.

God is good and I am always loved.

God reveals Himself in rearview mirrors.

You, who were made by Love, made for love-- be still and know and watch love come down.

The only way to care for the disadvantaged - is to disadvantage yourself -which is guaranteed to turn out for your advantage.

Satan's sin becomes the first sin of all humanity: the sin of ingratitude. Adam and Eve are, simply, painfully ungrateful for what God gave.

Living radical isn't about where you live - it's about how you love.

There are two kinds of doubt: one that fully lives into the questions, and one that uses the questions as weapons against fully living.

Every moment I live, I live bowed to something. And if I don't see God, I'll bow down before something else.

Eucharisteo—thanksgiving—always precedes the miracle.

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

We were made to live in a posture of grateful worship, and when we live in praise we live our purpose, and all the pieces fall in place, us all falling down in thanks.

When we fixate on the worst in something, we render ourselves incapable of fixing anything... But attend to the good in something - and we act towards the best in everything.

Because One died for me that I might breathe this breath...It's all a gift.

Satan prowls but he’s a lion on a leash

Thanksgiving-giving thanks in everything-prepares the way that God might show us His fullest salvation in Christ.

Thanksgiving creates abundance.

Sometimes you don’t know when you’re taking the first step through a door until you’re already inside.

Gratitude's not a natural posture. The prince of darkness is ultimately a spoiled ingrate, and I've spent most of my life as kin to the fist-shaker.

Only speak words that make souls stronger.

A lack of doxology leads to depravity.

We want clarity -- and God gives a call. We want a road map --- and God gives a relationship. We want answers -- and God gives His hand.

You love as well as you are willing to be inconvenienced.

But, someone, please give me—who is born again but still so much in need of being born anew—give me the details of how to live in the waiting cocoon before the forever begins?

Practice is the hardest part of learning, and training is the essence of transformation.

This day is not a sieve, losing time. With each passing minute, each passing year, there's this deepening awareness that I am filling, gaining time. We stand on the brink of eternity.

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.

Life is so urgent and necessitates living slow. It's only the amateurs-and that I've been, and it's been ugly-who thinks slow and urgent are contradictory.

Any kind of love that lacks the iron of the Cross in it, is anemic love.

Only speak words that make souls stronger -\-\ for once words are spoken, they may be forgiven, but may be not forgotten.

In our rushing, bulls in china shops, we break our own lives.

Poor communication doesn’t disconnect souls. It’s the disconnected souls who poorly communicate.

Every day, with every word, we get to decide: Do we mar the world, or mark the world?

God gives the world enough of what it needs. All He asks is that we distribute what He gives.

What if I gave thanks in the trouble, for the trouble, because the trouble is a gift that causes me to turn? What if I loved God not for His goods but for His love itself that is goodness enough?

Praying with eyes wide open is the only way to pray without ceasing.

God doesn't want your leftovers. God wants your love overtures, your first-overs, because He is your first love.

Without God’s Word as a lens, the world warps

God is patiently transfiguring all the notes of my life into the song of His Son.

God can enter into me, even me, and use these hands, these feet, to be His love, a love that goes on and on and on forever, endless cycle of grace.

Can God be counted on? Count blessings and find out how many of His bridges have already held.

Stress isn't only a joy stealer. The way we respond to it can be sin.

When I fully enter time’s swift current, enter into the current moment with the weight of all my attention, I slow the torrent with the weight of me all here.

God’s not out to get you - He’s out to give to you.

The fear is suffocating, terrorizing, and I want the remedy, and it is trust. Trust is everything.

If the Church is a body, and the body is a business, isn't that the same thing as prostitution?