Ann Voskamp Quotes

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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.

Ann Voskamp
In our rushing, bulls in china shops, we break our own lives.

Ann Voskamp
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
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.

Ann Voskamp
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.

Ann Voskamp
Joy and pain, they are but two arteries of the one heart that pumps through all those who don't numb themselves to really living.

Ann Voskamp
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?

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

Ann Voskamp
I know the theological answers, but do my blood and my pulse?

Ann Voskamp
The secret to joy is to keep seeking God where we doubt He is.

Ann Voskamp
Every time I surrender to stress, aren't I advertising the unreliability of God?

Ann Voskamp
The practice of giving thanks...eucharisteo...this is the way we practice the presence of God, stay present to His presence, and it is always a practice of the eyes. We don't have to change what we see. Only the way we see.

Ann Voskamp
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.

Ann Voskamp
In a world addicted to speed, I blur the moments into one unholy smear.

Ann Voskamp