Ann Voskamp Quotes - Page 4

Grace is the only thing that is ever enough.

I want a life that makes music - not just practices the piano.

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

God’s not out to get you - He’s out to give to you.

God is good and I am always loved.

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.

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.

Do I really smother my own joy because I believe that anger achieves more than love? That Satan's way is more powerful, more practical, more fulfilling in my daily life than Jesus' way? WHy else get angry? Isn't it because I think complaining, exasperation, resentment will pound me up into the full life I really want? When I choose-and it is a choice-to crush joy with bitterness, am I not purposefully choosing to take the way of the Prince of Darkness? Choosing the angry way of Lucifer because I think it is more effective-more expedient-than giving thanks?

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.

I only live the full life when I live fully in the moment.

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

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

When we fixate on the worst in something, we render ourselves incapable of fixing anything... But attend to the good in something - and we act towards the best in everything.

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

Every moment I live, I live bowed to something. And if I don't see God, I'll bow down before something else.

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?

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

We all get to choose where we set up the stage of our lives - before the Crowds, the Court, the Congregation, the Critics (inner or otherwise)-- or the Cross of Christ. All except One will assess your performance. Only One will accept you before your performance ... Only in Jesus is there 100% acceptance before even 1% performance.

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

Learning slowly to not be so reactionary while inserting verbal gratitude into stressful situations is almost like being healed of mental blindness.

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.

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

All fear is but the notion that God's love ends.

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.

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.