Top 250 Ann Voskamp Quotes (2024 Update)
Page 2 of 6

51. “Who would ever know the greater graces of comfort and perserverance, mercy and forgiveness, patience and courage, if no shadows fell over a life?”

— Ann Voskamp

52. “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

53. “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.”

— Ann Voskamp

54. “God only allows pain if He’s allowing something new to be born.”

— Ann Voskamp

55. “Pick up a yardstick to measure your life against anyone else’s, and you’ve just picked up a stick and beaten up your own soul.”

— Ann Voskamp

56. “The busyness of your life leaves little room for the source of your life.”

— Ann Voskamp

57. “You are, at your very essence, not what you think, but what you love.”

— Ann Voskamp

58. “Love doesn’t necessarily mean bless or agree with, it means sacrifice for and suffer with.”

— Ann Voskamp

59. “I fly to Paris and discover how to make love to God.”

— Ann Voskamp

60. “The life that counts blessings discovers its yielding more than it seems.”

— Ann Voskamp

61. “Calm. Haste makes waste. Life is not an emergency. Life is brief and it is fleeting but it is not an emergency.”

— Ann Voskamp

62. “Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus.”

— Ann Voskamp

63. “The Word God wastes nothing and He heals two broken hearts with one story – the reader and the writer.”

— Ann Voskamp

64. “In counting gifts, to one thousand, more, I discover that slapping a sloppy brush of thanksgiving over everything in my life leaves me deeply thankful for very few things in my life.”

— Ann Voskamp

65. “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

66. “More important than a clean house is a close family.”

— Ann Voskamp

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

— Ann Voskamp

68. “Is the height of my chara joy dependent on the depths of my eucharisteo thanks?”

— Ann Voskamp

69. “A life contemplating the blessings of Christ becomes a life acting the love of Christ.”

— Ann Voskamp

70. “Lament is a cry of belief in a good God, a God who has His ear to our hearts, a God who transfigures the ugly into beauty. Complaint is the bitter howl of unbelief in any benevolent God in this moment, a distrust in the love-beat of the Father’s heart.”

— Ann Voskamp

71. “When the church isn’t for the suffering and broken, then the church isn’t for Christ. Because Jesus, with His pierced side, is always on the side of the broken.”

— Ann Voskamp

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

— Ann Voskamp

73. “And when I give thanks for the seemingly microscopic, I make a place for God to grow within me.”

— Ann Voskamp

74. “Life isn’t an emergency. Christ is in charge of every moment of the day; nothing catches Him off guard.”

— Ann Voskamp

75. “And though I don’t know how today’s story will end, I remember: faith thanks God in the middle of the story.”

— Ann Voskamp

76. “Hurry always empties a soul.”

— Ann Voskamp

77. “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

78. “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.”

— Ann Voskamp

79. “It’s impossible to give thanks and simultaneously feel fear.”

— Ann Voskamp

80. “Our fall was, has always been, and always will be, that we aren’t satisfied in God and what He gives. We hunger for something more, something other.”

— Ann Voskamp

81. “He did not abandon you in the ultimate storm of your soul. He will not abandon you in the immediate storm of your now.”

— Ann Voskamp

82. “Manna today or I starve.”

— Ann Voskamp

83. “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

84. “Joy is a function of gratitude, and gratitude is a function of perspective. You only begin to change your life when you begin to change the way you see.”

— Ann Voskamp

85. “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

86. “When we lay the soil of our hard lives open to the rain of grace and let joy penetrate our cracked and dry places, let joy soak into our broken skin and deep crevices, life grows. How can this not be the best thing for the world? For us?”

— Ann Voskamp

87. “You only begin to change your life when you begin to change the way you see.”

— Ann Voskamp

88. “You may believe in God, but never forget – it’s God who believes in you. Every morning that the sun rises and you get to rise? That’s God saying He believes in you, that He believes in the story He’s writing through you. He believes in you as a gift the world needs.”

— Ann Voskamp

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

— Ann Voskamp

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

— Ann Voskamp

91. “In naming that which is right before me, that which I’d otherwise miss, the invisible becomes visible.”

— Ann Voskamp

92. “The only way to live a truly remarkable life is not to get everyone to notice you, but to leave noticeable marks of His love everywhere you go.”

— Ann Voskamp

93. “Worry is the facade of taking action when prayer really is.”

— Ann Voskamp

94. “If the Church is a body, and the body is a business, isn’t that the same thing as prostitution?”

— Ann Voskamp

95. “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.”

— Ann Voskamp

96. “He who carved the edges of the cosmos curved Himself into a fetal ball in the dark, tethered Himself to the uterine wall of a virgin, and lets His cells divide, light splitting all white. He gave up the heavens that were not even large enough to contain Him and lets Himself be held in a hand. The mystery so large becomes the Baby so small, and infinite God becomes infant.”

— Ann Voskamp

97. “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

98. “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

99. “Like the wind, Grace finds us wherever we are and won’t leave us however we were found.”

— Ann Voskamp

100. “On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgement and effort to get things done, hurry and impatience are sure marks of the amateur.”

— Ann Voskamp