Ann Voskamp Quotes

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

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

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• As long as thanks is possible, then joy is always possible.

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• God is good and I am always loved.

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• Life is so urgent it necessitates living slow.

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• Worry is the facade of taking action when prayer really is.

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• On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgement and effort to get things done, hurry and impatience are sure marks of the amateur.

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

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• I hunger for filling in a world that is starved.

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• Gratitude for the seemingly insignificant a seed this plants the giant miracle.

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• Be radical about grace and relentless about truth and resolute about holiness.

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• Life change comes when we receive life with thanks and ask for nothing to change.

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• Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus.

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

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• Practice is the hardest part of learning, and training is the essence of transformation.

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• Sometimes you don’t know when you’re taking the first step through a door until you’re already inside.

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• Fullness of joy is discovered only in the emptying of will.

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• A life contemplating the blessings of Christ becomes a life acting the love of Christ.

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• I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, in all the days before I die, the moments before I sleep.

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• From all of our beginnings, we keep reliving the Garden story.

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Ann Voskamp (40)

Birth:	10th August, 1973
Nationality:	Canadian
Profession:	Author

About

Ann Voskamp is the author of the New York Times Bestseller, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are, published by Zondervan. Named one of Publishers Weekly's Bestsellers for the year of 2011 and a USA Today Bestseller, Voskamp's debut memoir received an award of merit in Christianity Today's Books of the Year in 2012, while her blog was named in the Top 100 blogs of 2011 by Babble.  She and her published works have been featured in WORLD Magazine, People Magazine and The Huffington Post.

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