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When we can't bottle our tears up anymore, God catches every one in His bottle. God's catching every falling tear because He won't let us fall apart. — Ann Voskamp

Awe ignites joy because it makes us bend the knee. — Ann Voskamp

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

Every time I surrender to stress, aren't I advertising the unreliability of God? — Ann Voskamp

A pantheist's god is a passive god, but omnipresent God is Beauty who demands worship, passion, and the sacrifice of a life, for He owns it. — Ann Voskamp

The parent must always self-parent first, self-preach before child-teach, because who can bring peace unless they've held their own peace? — Ann Voskamp

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

If I don't have words, it's a sign I'm not reading enough. — Ann Voskamp

Being joyful isn't what makes you grateful. Being grateful is what makes you joyful. — Ann Voskamp

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? — Ann Voskamp

Real joy is not found in having the best of everything but in trusting that God is making the best of everything. — Ann Voskamp

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. — Ann Voskamp

I speak it to God: I don't really want more time; I just want enough time, time to do my one life well. — Ann Voskamp

Love is not blind; love is the holy vision. — Ann Voskamp

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

We're called to do more than believe in God, we're called to live in God. — Ann Voskamp

When we stop fearing failure, we start being artists. — Ann Voskamp

The answer to anxiety is always to exalt Christ. — Ann Voskamp

I am a mother-tired, but when my soul doth magnify, my time doth magnify. — Ann Voskamp

I stop the spinning thoughts, the probing questions, the hands sorting, the laundry work, because God needs knees more than hands. — Ann Voskamp

A day is a pocket of possibility and it's always there, waiting for your willing hand. — Ann Voskamp

Joy is always possible. Whenever, meaning - now; wherever, meaning - here. — Ann Voskamp

Is that why joy hurts
God stretching us open to receive more of Himself? — Ann Voskamp

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

Manna today or I starve. — Ann Voskamp

Thanks makes now a sanctuary. — Ann Voskamp

Start with a simple request, making it the refrain of your day: 'God, open the eyes of my heart.' This journey must be Spirit-led, every day. — Ann Voskamp

What is time for if not to bless? — Ann Voskamp

The secret to joy is to keep seeking God where we doubt He is. — Ann Voskamp

Worry is the facade of taking action when prayer really is. — Ann Voskamp

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. — Ann Voskamp

The Word God wastes nothing and He heals two broken hearts with one story - the reader and the writer. — Ann Voskamp

Counting one thousand gifts, I discovered I could count on God. — Ann Voskamp

The weight of God's glory, not illusory or ephemeral, but daily and everywhere, punctures earth's lid and heaven falls through the holes. — Ann Voskamp

Only speak words that make souls stronger. — Ann Voskamp

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. — Ann Voskamp

Life is dessert - too brief to hurry. — Ann Voskamp

A life contemplating the blessings of Christ becomes a life acting the love of Christ. — Ann Voskamp

That is what a shadow is, and empty space, a hole in the light. Evil is this - a hole in the goodness of God. — Ann Voskamp

Be radical about grace and relentless about truth and resolute about holiness ... — Ann Voskamp

When your ethnicity is heaven, then all adversity offers the gift of intimacy, driving you into the home of His heart. — Ann Voskamp

To lack faith perhaps isn't as much an intellectual disbelief in the existence of God as fear and distrust that there is a good God. — Ann Voskamp

Thanksgiving is inherent to a true salvation experience; thanksgiving is necessary to live the well, whole, 'fullest' life. — Ann Voskamp

Counting one thousand gifts means counting the hard things - otherwise I've miscounted. — Ann Voskamp

You love as well as you are willing to be inconvenienced. — Ann Voskamp

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. — Ann Voskamp

Life change comes when we receive life with thanks and ask for nothing to change. — Ann Voskamp

Christian hands never clasp and He doesn't give gifts for gain because a gift can never stop being a gift
it is always meant to be given. — Ann Voskamp

I want a life that makes music - not just practices the piano. — Ann Voskamp

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

Sometimes you don't know when you're taking the first step through a door until you're already inside. — Ann Voskamp

Satan prowls but he's a lion on a leash — Ann Voskamp

Is the height of my chara joy dependent on the depths of my eucharisteo thanks? — Ann Voskamp

I am bell and He is sure wind, and He moves and I am rung ... — Ann Voskamp

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

Eucharisteo makes the knees the vantage point of a life. — Ann Voskamp

Whatever I'm writing comes organically out of my life. — Ann Voskamp

Great faith is the greatest equalizer, the greatest eraser, and the greatest definer. — Ann Voskamp

I do what I always need to do. I preach it. I preach it to the person I need to preach to the most. I preach to me. — Ann Voskamp

The real problem of life is never a lack of time. The real problem of life - in my life - is lack of thanksgiving. — Ann Voskamp

God appoints people who do disappoint - to point to a God who never disappoints. — Ann Voskamp

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? — Ann Voskamp

I fly to Paris and discover how to make love to God. — Ann Voskamp

Thanksgiving creates abundance. — Ann Voskamp

My own wild desire to protect my joy at all costs is the exact force that kills my joy. Flames need oxygen to light, Flames need a bit of wind. — Ann Voskamp

Count blessings and discover Who can be counted on. — Ann Voskamp

You can have this as the best Christmas ever as much as you gaze into your Father's face and receive His gift. — Ann Voskamp

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

Simplicity is not a matter of circumstance; it is a matter of focus. — Ann Voskamp

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? — Ann Voskamp

Are stress and worry evidence of a soul too lazy, too undisciplined, to keep gaze fixed on God? — Ann Voskamp

Real Womanhood isn't a function of becoming a great mother, but of being loved by your Great Father. — Ann Voskamp

Scales always lie. They don't make a scale that ever told the truth about value, about worth, about significance. — Ann Voskamp

Love is ridiculous and reconfigures everything. — Ann Voskamp

It's impossible to give thanks and simultaneously feel fear — Ann Voskamp

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

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

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. — Ann Voskamp

Faith is in the gaze of a soul. — Ann Voskamp

Once you have tasted conviction, you can't bear to keep swallowing complacency. — Ann Voskamp

I came into this world the way every person on the planet does - with clenched fists. — Ann Voskamp

As G. K. Chesterton wrote, "How much larger your life would be if your self could become smaller in it."22 — Ann Voskamp

Until we call attention to the moments of our lives, we miss our lives. — Ann Voskamp

Only self can kill joy. — Ann Voskamp

The prayers we weave into the matching of socks, the stirring of oatmeal, the reading of stories, they survive fire. — Ann Voskamp

We 'have' all received on grace after another, but we only recognize the glory of God in this moment 'when we wake to the one grace after another'. — Ann Voskamp

War destroys more than cities - it destroys generations of dreams and hopes and education and possibility. — Ann Voskamp

If God didn't withhold from us His very own Son, will God withhold anything we need? — Ann Voskamp

When you have an overwhelmed world, you don't have to have an underwhelmed soul - if Christ fills the thoughts. — Ann Voskamp

The real romantics imagine greying and sagging and wrinkling as the deepening of something sacred. — Ann Voskamp

This is the crux of Christianity: to remember and give thanks, 'eucharisteo'. — Ann Voskamp

Get this, kids - how a man proposes isn't what makes him romantic. It's how a man purposes to lay down his life that makes him romantic. — Ann Voskamp

There is unwavering peace today when an uncertain tomorrow is trusted to an unchanging God. — Ann Voskamp

He must increase and I must decrease
not because that is burden but do that my joy might increase with more of Him! — Ann Voskamp

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. — Ann Voskamp

Thanks is what multiplies the joy and makes any life large, and I hunger for it. — Ann Voskamp

Faith thanks God in the middle of the story. — Ann Voskamp

Just that maybe ... maybe you don't want to change the story, because you don't know what a different ending holds. — Ann Voskamp

All is grace only because all can transfigure. — Ann Voskamp

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. — Ann Voskamp