Top 250 Ann Voskamp Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “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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152. “Homemaking is about making a home, not about making perfection.”

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153. “If trust must be earned, hasn’t God unequivocally earned our trust with the bark on the raw wounds, the thorns pressed into the brow, your name on the cracked lips.”

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154. “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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155. “The fear is suffocating, terrorizing, and I want the remedy, and it is trust. Trust is everything.”

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156. “Activity for God – is not the same as intimacy with God or identity in God. And it is your intimacy with Christ that gives you your identity. You can’t experience the power of Christ, the mission of Christ, being made new in Christ, until you know who you are in Christ.”

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157. “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.”

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158. “This day is not a sieve, losing time. With each passing minute, each passing year, there’s this deepening awareness that I am filling, gaining time. We stand on the brink of eternity.”

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159. “The only way to care for the disadvantaged – is to disadvantage yourself -which is guaranteed to turn out for your advantage.”

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160. “Without God’s Word as a lens, the world warps.”

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161. “That which tears open our souls, those holes that splatter our sight, may 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.”

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162. “Lord God, Maker of all, when You give manna moments, may I give You thanks for the mystery. Because the manna that makes no sense – You will make it my sustenance. Today, in all the “what is it?” moments, turn me to give thanks for who You are.”

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163. “Who knows why God allows heartbreak, but the answer must be important enough because God allows His heart to break too.”

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164. “Counting one thousand gifts means counting the hard things – otherwise I’ve miscounted.”

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165. “What matters most is not if our love makes other people change, but that in loving, we change. What matters is that in the sacrificing to love someone, we become more like Someone. Regardless of anything or anyone else changing, the success of loving is in how we change because we kept on loving.”

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166. “What if I gave thanks in the trouble, for the trouble, because the trouble is a gift that causes me to turn? What if I loved God not for His goods but for His love itself that is goodness enough?”

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167. “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.”

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168. “Love defies logic and keeps on loving when it makes no sense because that is what love does.”

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169. “To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken.”

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170. “I am more sinful and flawed than I ever dared believe, more loved and welcomed than I ever dared hope. ELYSE M. FITZPATRICK.”

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171. “We only enter into the full life if our faith gives thanks. Because how else do we accept His free gift of salvation if not with thanksgiving? Thanksgiving is the evidence of our acceptance of whatever He gives. Thanksgiving is the manifestation of our Yes! to His grace.”

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172. “Sometimes you aren’t listening to your body because you’re listening to everybody else’s expectations.”

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173. “Praying with eyes wide open is the only way to pray without ceasing.”

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174. “I don’t think of myself as an author. But simply as a grateful child of God. John 3:27 has long been a life verse: “A man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven.” Any more words will only be solely a gift from Him. I can only faithfully wait.”

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175. “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!”

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176. “Any kind of love that lacks the iron of the Cross in it, is anemic love.”

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177. “Gratitude is the most fruitful way of deepening your consciousness that you are a divine choice.”

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178. “Losses do that. One life-loss can infect the whole of a life. Like a rash that wears through our days, our sight becomes peppered with black voids. Now everywhere we look, we only see all that isn’t: holes, lack, deficiency.”

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179. “The art of giving is believing there is enough love in you, that you are loved enough by Him, to be made enough love to give. For.”

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180. “He’s inviting me to heal, but also to see my most meaningful calling: to be His healing to the hurting. My own brokenness, driving me into Christ’s, is exactly where I can touch the brokenhearted. Our.”

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181. “Be brave and do not pray for the hard thing to go away, but pray for a bravery that’s bigger than the hard thing.”

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182. “I want a life that makes music – not just practices the piano.”

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183. “You’ve got to use the life you’ve been given to give others life.”

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184. “Stress isn’t only a joy stealer. The way we respond to it can be sin.”

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185. “Giving thanks is that: making the canyon of pain into a megaphone to proclaim the ultimate goodness of God when Satan and all the world would sneer at us to recant.”

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186. “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.”

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187. “God doesn’t want your leftovers. God wants your love overtures, your first-overs, because He is your first love.”

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188. “From all of our beginnings, we keep reliving the Garden story.”

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189. “You will b experienced as a blessing – 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.”

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190. “Is that why joy hurts – God stretching us open to receive more of Himself?”

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191. “There are two kinds of doubt: one that fully lives into the questions, and one that uses the questions as weapons against fully living.”

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192. “When you’re most wounded by words run to the only Word that always brings healing.”

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193. “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. 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?”

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194. “Love isn’t about how much money someone’s willing to lay down for you, but about how much life they’re willing to lay down for you.”

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195. “The brave baring of all the broken in their brokenness can offer the miracle of communion. Never be afraid of being a broken thing.”

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196. “The frame of a soul was never made for fame. The frame of a soul was made to serve.”

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197. “Blessed – lucky – are those who cry. Blessed are those who are sad, who mourn, who feel the loss of what they love – because they will be held by the One who loves them. There is a strange and aching happiness only the hurting know – for they shall be held.”

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198. “We can worship Christ in our sanctuaries and we can pray to God on our knees, but how we treat – or neglect – the person next door, the poor, every human being, this is how we truly speak to Christ and this is how we really treat Jesus.”

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199. “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.”

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200. “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.”

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