Ann Voskamp - Joy Quotes

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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.

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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.

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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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Stress isn't only a joy stealer. The way we respond to it can be sin.

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

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Grace is alive, living waters. If I dam up the grace, hold the blessings tight, joy within dies... waters that have no life.

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Is the height of my chara joy dependent on the depths of my eucharisteo thanks?

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Joy is the realest reality, the fullest life, and joy is always given, never grasped. God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: joy.

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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.

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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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Rejecting joy to stand in solidarity with the suffering doesn't rescue the suffering.

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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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I receive grace. And through me, grace could flow on. Like a cycle of water in continuous movement, grace is meant to fall, a rain...again, again, again. I could share the grace, multiply the joy, extend the table of the feast, enlarge the paradise of His presence. I am blessed. I can bless.

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Holy joy lies in the habit of murmuring thanks to God for the smallest of graces.

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