Top 250 Ann Voskamp Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Every time I surrender to stress, aren’t I advertising the unreliability of God?”

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102. “God reveals Himself in rearview mirrors.”

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103. “Life-changing gratitude does not fasten to a life unless nailed through with one very specific nail at a time.”

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104. “Isn’t it here? The wonder? Why do I spend so much of my living hours struggling to see it? Do we truly stumble so blind that we must be affronted with blinding magnificence for our blurry soul-sight to recognize grandeur? The very same surging magnificence that cascades over our every day here. Who has time or eyes to notice?”

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105. “Let love break into you and mess with you and loosen you up and make you laugh and cry and give and hurt because this is the only way to really live.”

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106. “Remembering with thanks is what causes us to trust – to really believe.”

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107. “I only live the full life when I live fully in the moment.”

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108. “Real Love truthfully sees the flaws – and still really loves fully.”

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109. “Sometimes, too often, I don’t want to muster the energy. Stress and anxiety seem easier.”

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110. “Once you have tasted conviction, you can’t bear to keep swallowing complacency.”

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111. “The miracle of eucharisteo, like the Last Supper, is in the eating of crumbs, the swallowing down one mouthful. Do not disdain the small. The whole of the life – even the hard – is made up of the minute parts, and if I miss the infinitesimals, I miss the whole. These are new language lessons, and I live them out. 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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112. “Love only has logic, only has meaning, when it takes the form of the cross.”

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113. “Living radical isn’t about where you live – it’s about how you love.”

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114. “Maybe grieving over plans changed is part of the plan to change us.”

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115. “Until we call attention to the moments of our lives, we miss our lives.”

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116. “The greatest gift we can give our great God is to let His love make us glad.”

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117. “But the Lord draws near to Samuel: “The LORD doesn’t see things the way you see them. People judge by outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.”

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118. “Isn’t joy worth the effort of trust?”

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

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120. “Every mountain that every Christian ever faces, the Lord levels with sufficient grace.”

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121. “You can give up the need to compete in the world- when you accept being complete in Christ.”

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122. “Expectations kill relationships – especially with God.”

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123. “God gives the world enough of what it needs. All He asks is that we distribute what He gives.”

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124. “All God makes is good. Can it be that that which seems to oppose the will of God actually is used of Him to accomplish the will of God?”

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125. “God’s not out to get you – He’s out to give to you.”

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126. “Our broken hearts always break His.”

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127. “In a world addicted to speed, I blur the moments into one unholy smear.”

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128. “So now we pause. Still. Ponder. Hush. Wait. Each day of Advent, He gives you the gift of time, so you have time to be still and wait. Wait for the coming of the God in the manger who makes Himself bread for us near starved. For the Savior in swaddlings who makes Himself the robe of righteousness for us worn out. For Jesus, who makes precisely what none of us can but all of us want: Christmas.”

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129. “Gratitude is at the center of a life of faith. It sounds to simple to be true, but isn’t that the sign of all deep truth: so simple we’re tempted to dismiss it, and so hard, it is exactly what God uses to change our hard lives.”

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130. “Our broken hearts always break His. It’s the quantum physics of God: Your one broken heart always splits God’s heart in two. You never cry alone.”

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131. “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.”

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132. “Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness. Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace.”

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133. “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. I hunger to taste life. God.”

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134. “In a storm of struggles, I have tried to control the elements, clasp the fist tight so as to protect self and happiness. But stress can be an addiction, and worry can be our lunge for control, and we forget the answer to this moment is always yes because of Christ.”

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135. “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?”

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136. “The family tree of Christ startlingly notes not one woman but four. Four broken women – women who felt like outsiders, like has-beens, like never-beens. Women who were weary of being taken advantage of, of being unnoticed and uncherished and unappreciated; women who didn’t fit in, who didn’t know how to keep going, what to believe, where to go – women who had thought.”

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137. “You are whatever you love. You are, at your very essence, not what you think, but what you love... We are all compelled not by what we believe is right, but by what we love the most. You are not driven by duties, you are not driven by doctrines; you are driven by what you ultimately desire – and maybe you don’t actually really love whatever you think you love.”

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138. “And the saddest of all may be when we give away our lives to insignificant things, things we didn’t realize we subconsciously loved. Turns out – we give our lives to things we never would if we got honest and thought about them for one single moment. It’s happening every moment – our unintentional, accidental lives betray our true loves and what we subconsciously believe.”

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139. “In this day, this season, miracles will grow within, unfurl, bear fruit. And the heart that makes time and space for Him to come will be a glorious place. A place of sheer, radiant defiance in the face of a world careening mad and stressed. Because each day of Advent, we will actively wait. We will wait knowing that the remaking of everything has already begun.”

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140. “A lack of doxology leads to depravity.”

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141. “Slay the idol of the seen, break the idols of performance, and believe the state of my house doesn’t reflect the state of my soul... it’s the priorities unseen – the prayers, the relationships, the love while doing the work – that hold the meaning, the merit.”

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142. “When the heart and mind focus on things unseen – that’s when there’s a visible change in us.”

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143. “I’ll take it. I’ll take his words like a daring covenant, not knowing yet what’s to come: there is no growth without change, no change without surrender, no surrender without wound – no abundance without breaking. Wounds are what break open the soul to plant the seeds of a deeper growth.”

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144. “God reveals Himself in rearview mirrors. And I’ve an inkling that there are times when we need to drive a long, long distance, before we can look back and see God’s back in the rearview mirror. Maybe sometimes about as far as heaven – that kind of distance.”

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145. “God is always good and I am always loved. Everything is eucharisteo. Because eucharisteo is how Jesus, at the Last Supper, showed us to transfigure all things – take the pain that is given, give thanks for it, and transform it into a joy that fulfills all emptiness. I have glimpsed it: This, the hard eucharisteo. The hard discipline to lean into the ugly and whisper thanks to transfigure it into beauty. The hard discipline to give thanks for all things at all times because He is all good.”

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146. “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.”

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147. “Homemaking is about making a home, not about making perfection.”

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148. “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.”

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149. “Something always comes to fill the empty places. And when I give thanks for the seemingly microscopic, I make a place for God to grow within me.”

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150. “So slow down to feel the wind. Listen to the carols just a little bit longer. Linger in the quiet and taste the grace of now, and know that He is good and He is God. Name them in this moment – gift upon gift upon gift – and listen for the echo in everything: I will bless you.”

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