Top 250 Ann Voskamp Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Busy is a choice. Stress is a choice. Joy is a choice. Choose well.”

— Ann Voskamp

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

— Ann Voskamp

3. “There is unwavering peace today when an uncertain tomorrow is trusted to an unchanging God.”

— Ann Voskamp

4. “Joy is always a function of gratitude – and gratitude is always a function of perspective.”

— Ann Voskamp

5. “Being joyful isn’t what makes you grateful. Being grateful is what makes you joyful.”

— Ann Voskamp

6. “The answer to deep anxiety is the deep adoration of God.”

— Ann Voskamp

7. “God’s purposes are not for me to understand His plans: His plan is for me to understand Who He is.”

— Ann Voskamp

8. “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.”

— Ann Voskamp

9. “Faith thanks God in the middle of the story.”

— Ann Voskamp

10. “God gives us time. And who has time for God?”

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11. “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

12. “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.”

— Ann Voskamp

13. “You love as well as you are willing to be inconvenienced.”

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14. “Thanksgiving creates abundance.”

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15. “Your naked body deserves the honor of being shared only with someone who is covenanted to never stop loving your naked soul.”

— Ann Voskamp

16. “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

17. “Life is so urgent it necessitates living slow.”

— Ann Voskamp

18. “Gratitude is not only a response to God in good times – it’s ultimately the very will of God in hard times. Gratitude isn’t only a celebration when good things happen. It’s a declaration that God is good no matter what happens.”

— Ann Voskamp

19. “God is good and I am always loved.”

— Ann Voskamp

20. “Instead of giving someone a piece of your mind, it turns out far better if you give them a piece of your heart.”

— Ann Voskamp

21. “Eucharisteo – thanksgiving – always precedes the miracle.”

— Ann Voskamp

22. “As long as thanks is possible, then joy is always possible.”

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23. “When grief is deepest, words are fewest.”

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24. “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.”

— Ann Voskamp

25. “All fear is but the notion that God’s love ends.”

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26. “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

27. “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.”

— Ann Voskamp

28. “Gratitude for the seemingly insignificant – a seed – this plants the giant miracle.”

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29. “We give thanks to God not because of how we feel, but because of Who He is.”

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30. “Real joy is not found in having the best of everything but in trusting that God is making the best of everything.”

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31. “Are stress and worry evidence of a soul too lazy, too undisciplined, to keep gaze fixed on God?”

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32. “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.”

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33. “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.”

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34. “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

35. “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

36. “Fullness of joy is discovered only in the emptying of will.”

— Ann Voskamp

37. “Only speak words that make souls stronger.”

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

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39. “Comparison is a thug that robs your joy. But its even more than that – Comparison makes you a thug who beats down somebody – or your soul.”

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40. “Trust is the bridge from yesterday to tomorrow, built with planks of thanks.”

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41. “God appoints people who do disappoint – to point to a God who never disappoints.”

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42. “Rejecting joy to stand in solidarity with the suffering doesn’t rescue the suffering.”

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43. “Grace is the only thing that is ever enough.”

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44. “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.”

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45. “The message of Christmas is not that we can make peace. Or that we can make love, make light, make gifts, or make this world save itself. The message of Christmas is that this world’s a mess and we can never save ourselves from ourselves and we need a Messiah.”

— Ann Voskamp

46. “Satan prowls but he’s a lion on a leash.”

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47. “I don’t want a Christmas you can buy. I don’t want a Christmas you can make. What I want is a Christmas you can hold. A Christmas that holds me, remakes me, revives me. I want a Christmas that whispers, Jesus.”

— Ann Voskamp

48. “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.”

— Ann Voskamp

49. “The prayers we weave into the matching of socks, the stirring of oatmeal, the reading of stories, they survive fire.”

— Ann Voskamp

50. “I don’t really want more time; I just want enough time. Time to breathe deep and time to see real and time to laugh long, time to give You glory and rest deep and sing joy and just enough time in a day not to feel hounded, pressed, driven, or wild to get it all done-yesterday.”

— Ann Voskamp