Ann Voskamp Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Ann Voskamp
Ann Voskamp Famous Quotes & Sayings
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There are two kinds of doubt: one that fully lives into the questions, and one that uses the questions as weapons against fully living.
Love comes softly, it cannot be forced ... cannot bear the weight of our expectations. Love always comes in the surrender - in the falling.
The parent must always self-parent first, self-preach before child-teach, because who can bring peace unless they've held their own peace?
If I am truly in Christ, mustn't my initial act, too, always be an act of thanksgiving, returning to Jesus with thanks on the lips?
Thanksgiving-giving thanks in everything-prepares the way that God might show us His fullest salvation in Christ.
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.
Pantheism, seeing the natural world as divine, is a very different thing than seeing divine God present in all things
Life isn't an emergency. Christ is in charge of every moment of the day; nothing catches Him off guard.
Take the pain that is given, give thanks for it, and transform it into a joy that fulfills all emptiness.
It is no use for you to attempt to sow out of an empty basket, for that would be sowing nothing but wind, wrote Spurgeon.
Please hear me, Girl: The world has enough women who know how to do their hair. It needs women who know how to do hard and holy things.
Life-changing gratitude does not fasten to a life unless nailed through with one very specific nail at a time.
I can see it in the looking back, how this daily practice of the discipline of gratitude is the way to daily practice the delight of God ...
I'm not a fast writer at all. I come empty and wait upon the Lord. So it really is all a waiting process, a patient process.
The cure against the bite of thanklessness. The remedy is in the retina. How we behold determines if we hold joy. Behold glory and be held by God.
Who would ever know the greater graces of comfort and perserverance, mercy and forgiveness, patience and courage, if no shadows fell over a life?
For years, I tried medication, blade, work, escape, all attempts to drown out that incessant, reverberating drum of self-rejection.
Entertaining the mind with trivial pretties when I haven't bowed the head and heart in a prayer longer than five minutes in a week.
The whole earth is full of His glory. Sky, land, and sea, heavy and saturated with God
why do I always forget?
why do I always forget?
He did not abandon you in the ultimate storm of your soul. He will not abandon you in the immediate storm of your now.
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.
Instead of giving someone a piece of your mind, it turns out far better if you give them a piece of your heart.
Thanksgiving is inherent to a true salvation experience; thanksgiving is necessary to live the well, whole, 'fullest' life.
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 prayers we weave into the matching of socks, the stirring of oatmeal, the reading of stories, they survive fire.
When you have an overwhelmed world, you don't have to have an underwhelmed soul - if Christ fills the thoughts.
On the night He was betrayed Jesus broke bread and lifted it up and gave THANKS. If Jesus can give thanks in that, can we not give thanks in all?
When your ethnicity is heaven, then all adversity offers the gift of intimacy, driving you into the home of His heart.
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.
Just that maybe ... maybe you don't want to change the story, because you don't know what a different ending holds.
You can have this as the best Christmas ever as much as you gaze into your Father's face and receive His gift.
How do you open the eyes to see how to take the daily, domestic, workday vortex and invert it into the dome of an everyday cathedral?
Scales always lie. They don't make a scale that ever told the truth about value, about worth, about significance.
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.
In naming that which is right before me, that which I'd otherwise miss, the invisible becomes visible.
Are farmers and they keep trying to breathe, keep the body moving to keep the soul from atrophying. Mama cries when she strings
Comparison is a thug that robs your joy. But it's even more than that - Comparison makes you a thug who beats down somebody - or your soul.
Every religion, every program, every self-help book is about steps you have to take. Jesus is the only One who becomes the step - to take you.
The art of giving is believing there is enough love in you, that you are loved enough by Him, to be made enough love to give. For
You may suffer loss but in Me is anything ever lost, really? Isn't everything that belongs to Christ also yours?