So slow down to feel the wind. Listen to the carols just a little bit longer. Linger in the quiet and taste the grace of now, and know that He is good and He is God. Name them in this moment – gift upon gift upon gift – and listen for the echo in everything: I will bless you.

— Ann Voskamp

Ann Voskamp Quotes

Great faith is the greatest equalizer, the greatest eraser, and the greatest definer.

— Ann Voskamp

Isn’t joy worth the effort of trust?

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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.

— Ann Voskamp

And though I don’t know how today’s story will end, I remember: faith thanks God in the middle of the story.

— Ann Voskamp

The life that yields the most – yields the most.

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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.

— Ann Voskamp

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

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You do something great with your life when you do all the small things with His great love.

— Ann Voskamp

Live everyday like you’re terminal, because you are. Live everyday like your soul is eternal, because it is!

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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.

— Ann Voskamp

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

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The only way to rise to the beauty of love is to rise and serve.

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I had wanted someone to reach over to me at eighteen, sit in that church pew next to me, someone to touch my shoulder, to steady things and say: “Shame is a bully but grace is a shield. You are safe here.

— Ann Voskamp

Great grief isn’t made to fit inside your body. It’s why your heart breaks.

— Ann Voskamp

Expectations kill relationships – especially with God.

— Ann Voskamp

Time is made for dying in a thousand ways, so why be afraid of dying when a kind of dying could come all the time? Live every day like you’re terminal. Because you are. Live every day like your soul is eternal. Because it is.

— Ann Voskamp

Wise men are only wise because they make their priority the seeking of Christ.

— Ann Voskamp

Too often we want clarity and God wants us to come closer.

— Ann Voskamp

Life is never made unbearable by the road itself but by the way we bear the road. It’s not the hard roads that slay us; what actually slays us is the expectation that this road isn’t what we hoped it to be.

— Ann Voskamp

Buy the lie that your life is supposed to be heaven on earth, and suffering can be a torturous hell. But life is suffering, and suffering is but the cross we bear, part of earth’s topography to cross on our way to heaven. I wouldn’t know it for years: Screens sell pipe dreams. Every screen is trying to sell the lie to you – from Hollywood.

— Ann Voskamp
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