Top 250 Ann Voskamp Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “You, who were made by Love, made for love – be still and know and watch love come down.”

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202. “Simplicity is not a matter of circumstance; it is a matter of focus.”

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203. “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.”

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204. “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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205. “Our fall is always first a failure to give thanks.”

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206. “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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207. “The life that yields the most – yields the most.”

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208. “The only way to the abundant life is to love the right things in the right ways.”

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209. “The hands of every clock never stop signing this: the best use of your hands is always love. The best way to say you love is always time. The best time to love is always now.”

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210. “No matter what the outcome looks like, if your love has poured out, your life will be success-full.”

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211. “The only way to fight a feeling is with a feeling.”

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212. “You are the most loved not when you’re pretending to have it all together; you are actually the most loved when you feel broken and falling apart.”

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213. “Love is not blind; love is the holy vision.”

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214. “We aren’t here to one-up one another, but to help one another up.”

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215. “You will be most remembered-by what brought you most joy.”

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216. “Prayer without ceasing is only possible in a life of continual thanks. How did I ever think there was another way to enter into His courts but with thanksgiving?”

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217. “I didn’t start with any specific steps, but through this intentional, daily practice of giving thanks, I found myself on a transformative journey that affected every aspect of my life – including all the broken places.”

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218. “Isn’t falling in love always the fullest life?”

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219. “No certain place can give you abundant life like a certain purpose can. Like purpose and meaning and connection can. I.”

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220. “When the church isn’t for the suffering and broken, then the church isn’t for Christ.”

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221. “But in all His relationships, God reaches for man. Reaches for you who have fallen and scraped your heart raw, for you who feel the shame of words that have snaked off your tongue and poisoned corners of your life, for you who keep trying to cover up pain with perfectionism.”

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222. “Great faith is the greatest equalizer, the greatest eraser, and the greatest definer.”

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223. “At the last, this is what will determine a fulfilling, meaningful life, a life that, behind all the facades, every one of us longs to live: gratitude for the blessings that expresses itself by becoming the blessing.”

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224. “Every day, with every word, we get to decide: Do we mar the world, or mark the world?”

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225. “How can it be? When we’re naked and ashamed and alone in our brokenness, Christ envelops us with His intimate grace. When we’re rejected and abandoned and feel beyond wanting, Jesus cups our face: “Come close, my Beloved.” When we’re dirty and tear-stained and despairing, Jesus Christ is attracted to us and proposes undying love: “All that you’re carrying I take... and all that I am is yours.” How do you ever get over that?”

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226. “I hunger for filling in a world that is starved.”

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227. “Every religion, every program, every self-help book is about steps you have to take. Jesus is the only One who becomes the step – to take you.”

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228. “Love breaks us vulnerably open – and then can break us with rejection.”

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229. “A day is a pocket of possibility and it’s always there, waiting for your willing hand.”

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230. “But wells don’t come without first begging to see the wells; wells don’t come without first splitting open hard earth, cracking back the lids. There’s no seeing God face-to-face without first the ripping.”

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231. “I know the theological answers, but do my blood and my pulse?”

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232. “Because nothing is greater and we have no greater need, God gives God.”

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233. “This is what I know right then: the world is brokenhearted and full of suffering, and if you listen to what life needs instead of what you need from it, you could fill the brokenness with your own brokenhearted love – and this will in turn fill you. What if you were not afraid?”

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234. “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.”

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235. “Real Womanhood isn’t a function of becoming a great mother, but of being loved by your Great Father.”

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236. “While I may not always feel joy, God asks me to give thanks in all things because He knows that the feeling of joy begins in the action of thanksgiving.”

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237. “What is time for if not to bless?”

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238. “When your ethnicity is heaven, then all adversity offers the gift of intimacy, driving you into the home of His heart.”

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239. “Don’t belittle everyday pots and pans – they are the means to carry theology into the everyday of our lives.”

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240. “But, someone, please give me – who is born again but still so much in need of being born anew – give me the details of how to live in the waiting cocoon before the forever begins?”

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241. “God is patiently transfiguring all the notes of my life into the song of His Son.”

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242. “Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world. Sarah Ban Breathnach.”

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243. “Awe ignites joy because it makes us bend the knee.”

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244. “If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place of training and correction and it’s not so bad.”

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245. “We’re called to do more than believe in God, we’re called to live in God.”

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246. “A willingness to be inconvenienced is the ultimate proof of love.”

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247. “It’s not that your heart isn’t going to break; it’s how you let the brokenness be made into abundance afterward.”

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248. “The answer to anxiety is always to exalt Christ.”

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249. “I am what I love, and I will love you like Jesus, because of Jesus, through the strength of Jesus. I will love when I’m not loved back. I will love when I’m hurt and disappointed and betrayed and inconvenienced and rejected. I simply will love. No expectations, no conditions, no demands.”

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250. “Really good writing, from my perspective, runs a lot like a visual on the screen. You need to create that kind of detail and have credibility with the reader, so the reader knows that you were really there, that you really experienced it, that you know the details. That comes out of seeing.”

— Ann Voskamp