Ann Voskamp Quotes About Joy

Quotes about: Joy

• It's habits that can imprison you and it's habits that can free you. But when thanks to God becomes a habit - so joy in God becomes your life.

  Ann Voskamp

  Joy, Thanks, Habit

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

  Ann Voskamp

  Joy, Doubt, Secret

  Ann Voskamp (2011). “One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are”, p.139, Zondervan

• Busy is a choice. Stress is a choice. Joy is a choice. Choose well.

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  Stress, Choices, Joy

• 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.

  Ann Voskamp

  Real, Yesterday, Long

  Ann Voskamp (2011). “One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are”, p.67, Zondervan

• Real joy is not found in having the best of everything but in trusting that God is making the best of everything.

  Ann Voskamp

  Real, Real Joy, Joy

  Twitter post from Feb 04, 2016

• 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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  Beautiful, Light, Giving

  FaceBook post by Ann Voskamp from Feb 19, 2014

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

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  Gratitude, Long, Joy

  Ann Voskamp (2011). “One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are”, p.33, Zondervan

• 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?

  Ann Voskamp

  Rain, Broken, Joy

  FaceBook post by Ann Voskamp from Feb 20, 2014

• 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

  Pain, Heart, Two

• Joy is always a function of gratitude - and gratitude is always a function of perspective.

  Ann Voskamp

  Gratitude, Autism, Perspective

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

  Ann Voskamp

  Stress, Joy, Way

• 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.

  Ann Voskamp

  Reality, Giving, Joy

  Ann Voskamp (2011). “One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are”, p.57, Zondervan

• 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?

  Ann Voskamp

  Crush, Jesus, Powerful

• 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.

  Ann Voskamp

  Rain, Blessed, Fall

• I make soup and I back bread and I know my supreme need is joy in God and I know I can't experience deep joy in God until I deep trust in God. I shine sinks and polish through to the realization that trusting God is my most urgent need. If I deep trusted God in all the facets of my life, wouldn't that deep heal my anxiety, my self-condemnation, my soul holes? The fear is suffocating, terrorizing, and I want the remedy, and it is trust. Trust is everything. If fear keeps our lives small, does a life that receives all of God in this moment grow large too?

  Ann Voskamp

  Self, Joy, Anxiety

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

  Ann Voskamp

  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Joy

  Ann Voskamp (2011). “One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are”, p.33, Zondervan

• 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.

  Ann Voskamp

  Eye, Keys, Giving

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

  Ann Voskamp

  Joy, Fullness

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

  Ann Voskamp

  Blessing, Water, Joy

• You will be most remembered-by what brought you most joy.

  Ann Voskamp

  Joy, Remembered

  FaceBook post by Ann Voskamp from Oct 17, 2012

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

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  Lying, Joy, Grace

  Ann Voskamp (2012). “One Thousand Gifts Devotional: Reflections on Finding Everyday Graces”, p.209, Zondervan

• Every breath is a battle between grudgery and gratitude. Give thanks...and you win joy.

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  Gratitude, Winning, Giving

• 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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  Dream, Loss, Joy

  Ann Voskamp (2011). “One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are”, p.12, Zondervan

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

  Ann Voskamp

  Joy, Suffering, Rescue

  Ann Voskamp (2011). “One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are”, p.58, Zondervan

• God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: joy.

  Ann Voskamp

  Giving, Joy, Thanks

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