Voskamp Famous Quotes & Sayings
100 Voskamp Famous Sayings, Quotes and Quotation.
When the heart and mind focus on things unseen - that's when there's a visible change in us.— Ann Voskamp
Counting one thousand gifts means counting the hard things - otherwise I've miscounted.— Ann Voskamp
With memories of gravestones, of combing fingers through tangled hair, I wonder too ... If the rent in the canvas of our life backdrop, the losses that puncture our world, and our own emptiness, might actually become places to see.— Ann Voskamp
To see through to God.
That which tears open our souls, those holes which splatter sight, they actually become the thin, open places to see through the mess of this place to the heart aching beauty beyond. To him. To the god whom we endlessly crave.
But how? How do we choose to allow the holes to become seeing through to collect places? How do I give up resentment for gratitude, anger for spilling joy, so focus for God communion. To fully live to fully live grace enjoy with all that is beauty internal it is possible
Because One died for me that I might breathe this breath ... It's all a gift.— Ann Voskamp
God's purposes are not for me to understand His plans: His plan is for me to understand Who He is.— Ann Voskamp
The joy of the Lord is your strength and the person of Christ is your unassailable joy - and the battle for joy is nothing less than fighting the good fight of faith.— Ann Voskamp
Learning slowly to not be so reactionary while inserting verbal gratitude into stressful situations is almost like being healed of mental blindness.— Ann Voskamp
My baby is five. She falls asleep in my arms ... Her breath is warm on my face, all that is alive and warm and breathing inside of her now, falling upon me, and I can't capture it, hold it, this, her life now, me in this moment. She is leaving me, she's growing up and moving away from me, and she stirs and I sweep back the crop of the golden ringlets. Stay, Little One, stay. Love's a deep wound and what is a mother without a child and why can't I hold on to now forever and her here and me here and why does time snatch away a heart I don't think mine can beat without? Why do we all have to grow old? Why do we have to keep saying good-bye?— Ann Voskamp
Relationships only get to exist as long as they keep breathing in the air of mutual forgiveness, and he and I have found an uncommon grace. Grace can strike when you are in great pain and light you with the greatest hope. I— Ann Voskamp
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.— Ann Voskamp
True saints know that the place where all the joy comes from is far deeper than that of feelings; joy comes from the place of the very presence of God. Joy is God and God is joy and joy doesn't negate all other emotions - joy transcends all other emotions.— Ann Voskamp
Great thinkers are the grateful thankers - the real greats live gratefully.— Ann Voskamp
The life that counts blessings discovers its yielding more than it seems.— Ann Voskamp
A life contemplating the blessings of Christ becomes a life acting the love of Christ.— Ann Voskamp
Every mountain that every Christian ever faces, the Lord levels with sufficient grace.— Ann Voskamp
If God didn't withhold from us His very own Son, will God withhold anything we need?— Ann Voskamp
Worry is the facade of taking action when prayer really is.— Ann Voskamp
Love is not blind; love is the holy vision.— Ann Voskamp
If you haven't lost Christ, child, nothing is ever lost.— Ann Voskamp
This. I live in this place, make porridge, scrub toilets, do laundry, and for days, weeks, I am brave and I do get out of bed and I think on this. I study this, the full life, the being fully ready for the end. I start to think that maybe there is a way out of nightmares to dreams? Maybe?— Ann Voskamp
Life-changing gratitude does not fasten to a life unless nailed through with one very specific nail at a time.— Ann Voskamp
The one who lives her life in circles, discovering, entering into, forgetting and losing, finding her way round again, living her life in layers— Ann Voskamp
deeper, round, further in. I know 'eucharisteo' and the miracle. But I am not a woman who ever lives the full knowing.
And when I give thanks for the seemingly microscopic, I make a place for God to grow within me.— Ann Voskamp
How my eyes see, perspective, is my key to enter into His gates. I can only do so with thanksgiving. If my inner eye has God seeping up through all things, then can't I give thanks for anything? And if I can give thanks for the good things, the hard things, the absolute everything, I can enter the gates to glory. Living in His presence is fullness of joy- and seeing shows the way in.— Ann Voskamp
He's splashing through ancient water, water from the beginning that has cycled through all centuries, puddle-jumped by a thousand young boys through the ages and I wonder if the water Adam knew falls here.— Ann Voskamp
God gives the world enough of what it needs. All He asks is that we distribute what He gives.— Ann Voskamp
Any kind of love that lacks the iron of the Cross in it, is anemic love.— Ann Voskamp
When you have an overwhelmed world, you don't have to have an underwhelmed soul - if Christ fills the thoughts.— Ann Voskamp
This is the crux of Christianity: to remember and give thanks, 'eucharisteo'.— Ann Voskamp
Hurry always empties a soul.— Ann Voskamp
Adults are tempted to produce and perform Christmas for their kids and their families, and they arrive at Christmas Day weary and disillusioned.— Ann Voskamp
When we know Christ, we always know how things are going to go ... always for our good and always for His glory.— Ann Voskamp
The true Love Dare. To move into His presence and listen to His love unending and know the grace uncontainable. This is the vault of the miracles. The only thing that can change us, the world, is this- all His love.— Ann Voskamp
Our [people's] very saving is associated with our gratitude. Which follows: if our fall in the garden was ingratitude, then salvation must be intimately related to giving of thanks.— Ann Voskamp
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God is always good and we are always loved ... even when what He gives may appear ugly.— Ann Voskamp
Something always comes to fill the empty places.— Ann Voskamp
Looking is the love. Looking is evidence of the believing.— Ann Voskamp
All is grace only because all can transfigure.— Ann Voskamp
Every time I surrender to stress, aren't I advertising the unreliability of God?— Ann Voskamp
Research actually indicates that if you write down what you're grateful for, it increases your happiness by 25%. And who doesn't want that? And God's word says (1 Thessalonians 5), "Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus." Who doesn't want to know exactly what God's will is for them?— Ann Voskamp
You will b experienced as a blessing— Ann Voskamp
to the extent you have fist experienced yourself as blessed. You must feel the fullness of your own pitcher before you trust the pouring out of yourself.
So God throws open the door of this world - and enters as a baby. As the most vulnerable imaginable. Because He wants unimaginable intimacy with you. What religion ever had a god that wanted such intimacy with us that He came with such vulnerability to us? What God ever came so tender we could touch Him? So fragile that we could break Him? So vulnerable that His bare, beating heart could be hurt? Only the One who loves you to death.— Ann Voskamp
There is unwavering peace today when an uncertain tomorrow is trusted to an unchanging God.— Ann Voskamp
I came into this world the way every person on the planet does - with clenched fists.— Ann Voskamp
The highest form of prayer is to the goodness of God ... God only desires that our soul cling to him with all of its strength, in particular, that it clings to his goodness.— Ann Voskamp
Realize that the real hidden cost of everything you buy- is how much life it cost you to get it.— Ann Voskamp
I am a hunter of beauty and I move slow and I keep the eyes wide, every fiber of every muscle sensing all wonder and this is the thrill of the hunt and I could be an expert on the life full, the beauty meat that lurks in every moment.— Ann Voskamp
I hunger to taste life.
God.
Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus.— Ann Voskamp
While other creeds endeavor to get us out of the world and into heaven, in Christianity, heaven comes down and Christ comes into this world to get us. To suffer with us. We find favor - only because Christ feels pain.— Ann Voskamp
Joy is always possible. Whenever, meaning - now; wherever, meaning - here.— Ann Voskamp
Life is dessert - too brief to hurry.— 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
Satan prowls but he's a lion on a leash— Ann Voskamp
The sun climbs the horizon. I throw back the covers, take another breath, and begin. I get to. I get to live.— Ann Voskamp
In our rushing, bulls in china shops, we break our own lives.— Ann Voskamp
even when life abandons you, you are in the arms of God. I— Ann Voskamp
Suffering is not a problem that needs a solution as much as it's an experience that needs compassion. Because— Ann Voskamp
What is time for if not to bless?— Ann Voskamp
The fear is suffocating, terrorizing, and I want the remedy, and it is trust. Trust is everything.— Ann Voskamp
Parenting is about preparing children to get along with each other, to get along with you and without you, and that it's impossible to get along without God.— Ann Voskamp
The whole earth is full of His glory. Sky, land, and sea, heavy and saturated with God— Ann Voskamp
why do I always forget?
Eucharisteo, remembering with thanks, this is the bread. We take the moments as bread and give thanks and the thanks itself becomes bread. The thanks itself nourishes. Thanks feeds our trust ... Manna with thanks, eat the mystery of the moment with trust, and am nourished another day - or refuse it ... and die. Jesus calls us to surrender and there's nothing like releasing fears and falling into peace. This is what I have always wanted and never knew: this utter trust, this enlivening fall of surrender into the safe hands. There is no joy without trust! Page 158— Ann Voskamp
Only the Word is the answer to rightly reading the world, because The Word has nail-scarred hands that cup our face close, wipe away the tears running down, has eyes to look deep into our brimming ache, and whisper, I know. I know.— Ann Voskamp
The brave baring of all the broken in their brokenness can offer the miracle of communion. Never be afraid of being a broken thing.— Ann Voskamp
I have to seek God beauty. Because isn't my internal circuitry wired to seek out something worthy of worship? . True Beauty worship, worship of Creator Beauty Himself. God is present in all moments, but I do not deify the wind in the pines, the snow falling on the hemlocks, the moon over harvested wheat. Pantheism, seeing the natural world as divine, is a very different thing than seeing divine God present in all things . Nature is not God but God revealing the weight of Himself, all His glory, through the looking glass of nature.— Ann Voskamp
The answer to deep anxiety is the deep adoration of God.— Ann Voskamp
Eucharisteo means 'to give thanks,' and give is a verb, something that we do. God calls me to do thanks. to give the thanks away. That thanks-giving might literally become thanks-living. That our lives become the very blessings we have received. I am blessed. I can bless. Imagine! I could let Him make me the gift! I could be the joy!— Ann Voskamp
Eucharisteo is giving thanks for grace. But in the breaking and giving of bread, in the washing of feet, Jesus makes it clear that eucharisteo is, yes, more: it is giving grace away.— Ann Voskamp
Generosity does give birth to intimacy - but there's a far deeper intimacy when we're generous in sharing our brokenness.— Ann Voskamp
Sometimes, too often, I don't want to muster the energy. Stress and anxiety seem easier.— Ann Voskamp
Forget the face of God, and forget your own name is Beloved.— Ann Voskamp
Wherever you are, be all there. I have lived the runner, panting ahead in worry, pounding back in regrets, terrified to live in the present, because here-time asks me to do the hardest of all: just open wide and receive.— Ann Voskamp
Loving broken people when it is inconvenient is the way to have fuller inclusion in the life of Christ. Teach— Ann Voskamp
The wonder of all this - God looks at you at your lowest and loves you all the way up to the sky.— Ann Voskamp
God gives us time. And who has time for God?— Ann Voskamp
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.— Ann Voskamp
Every moment I live, I live bowed to something. And if I don't see God, I'll bow down before something else.— 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
And His Word can come through the trees like wind. "I was hungry and you fed me, I was thirsty and you gave me a drink, I was homeless and you gave me a room, I was shivering and you gave me clothes, I was sick and you stopped to visit, I was in prison and you came to me . . . I'm telling the solemn truth: Whenever you did one of these things to someone overlooked or ignored, that was me - you did it to me."3— Ann Voskamp
Sometimes God answers our questions with questions.— Ann Voskamp
Grace is alive, living waters. If I dam up the grace, hold the blessings tight, joy within dies ... waters that have no life.— Ann Voskamp
Daily discipline is the door to full freedom, and the discipline to count to one thousand gave way to the freedom of wonder and I can't imagine not staying awake to God in the moment, the joy in the now.— Ann Voskamp
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.— Ann Voskamp
Your naked body deserves the honor of being shared only with someone who is covenanted to never stop loving your naked soul.— Ann Voskamp
A lack of doxology leads to depravity.— Ann Voskamp
Holy joy lies in the habit of murmuring thanks to God for the smallest of graces.— Ann Voskamp
God is good and I am always loved.— Ann Voskamp
Take the pain that is given, give thanks for it, and transform it into a joy that fulfills all emptiness.— Ann Voskamp
Like the wind, Grace finds us wherever we are and won't leave us however we were found.— Ann Voskamp
Life is dessert - too brief to hurry ... "Where ever you are, be all there" is only possible with eucharisteo. Slow down and taste life, give thanks, and see God. Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus. Eucharisteo keeps the focus. Page 77— Ann Voskamp
Going ahead in the midst of the stressful circumstances and giving thanks in that moment - you can't simultaneously feel stress and gratitude at the same time. So as a parent, to go ahead and start to give thanks to God resets the whole family.— Ann Voskamp
The well is always here. God is always here - precisely because He does care.— Ann Voskamp
Joy is a flame that glimmers only in the palm of the open and humble hand. In an open and humble palm, released and surrendered to receive, light dances, flickers happy. The moment the hand is clenched tight, fingers all pointing towards self and rights and demands, joy is snuffed out. Anger is the lid that suffocates joy until she lies limp and lifeless.— Ann Voskamp
How do I wake up to joy and grace and beauty and all that is the fullest life when I must stay numb to losses and crushed dreams and all that empties me out?— 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
It's the battle plan of the enemy of the soul - to keep us blind to this current moment, the one we can't control, to keep us blind to Him, the One who controls everything.— Ann Voskamp
The art of deep seeing makes gratitude possible.— Ann Voskamp
I glance back in the mirror to the concrete bridge, the one I've boldly driven straight across without second thought, and I see truth reflecting back at me: Every time fear freezes and worry writhes, every time I surrender to stress, aren't I advertising the unreliability of God? That I really don't believe? But if I'm grateful to the Bridge Builder for the crossing of a million strong bridges, thankful for a million faithful moments, my life speaks my beliefs and I trust Him again.— Ann Voskamp
What she means? Sure, whatever. It's not like I thought that this is the carving, the flying, the healing of my wounds. Sometimes you don't know when you're— Ann Voskamp
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.— Ann Voskamp
