Quotes by Ann Voskamp

Ann Voskamp (b. 1973) — Buchautorin und Bloggerin · evangelikal · Kanada

Ann Voskamp (* 1973) ist eine kanadische christliche Autorin und Bloggerin, die im evangelikalen Spektrum durch Bestseller wie „Tausend Geschenke“ internationale Bekanntheit erlangte. Ihre lyrisch verfassten Texte stellen Dankbarkeit und Gottes Gegenwart im Alltag sowie im Leid in den Mittelpunkt, stießen jedoch bei einigen konservativ-reformierten Theologen wegen mystischer Tendenzen und erotischer Sprachbilder auf Kritik. Für Bibelleser bieten ihre Veröffentlichungen Impulse für einen lebensnahen Umgang mit Zerbruch und die Suche nach Hoffnung in schweren Zeiten.

Era: Today

Recurring topics: Faith & Trust, Joy & Gratitude, Suffering & the Question of God, Service & Love of Neighbour, Discipleship, Growth & Character, God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit, Love

Quotes by Ann Voskamp

When the church isn't for the suffering and broken, then the church isn't for Christ. Because Jesus, with His pierced side, is always on the side of the broken.

Ann Voskamp

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

Ann Voskamp

The world has enough women who know how to do their hair. It needs women who know how to do hard and holy things.

Ann Voskamp

Eucharisteo has taught me to trust that there is always enough God. He has no end.

Ann Voskamp

The real problem of life is never a lack of time. The real problem of life - in my life - is lack of thanksgiving.

Ann Voskamp

Satan prowls, but he's a lion on a leash.

Ann Voskamp

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

Ann Voskamp

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

Ann Voskamp

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

Ann Voskamp

Who knows why God allows heartbreak, but the answer must be important enough because God allows His heart to break too.

Ann Voskamp

It's not that your heart isn't going to break; it's how you let the brokenness be made into abundance afterward.

Ann Voskamp

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.

Ann Voskamp

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

Ann Voskamp

Our fall was, has always been, and always will be, that we aren't satisfied in God and what He gives. We hunger for something more, something other.

Ann Voskamp

To get where you want to go, the first question you always have to answer is Where am I?... We only find out where we are when we find out where He is. We only find ourselves... when we find Him.

Ann Voskamp

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

Ann Voskamp

Our broken hearts always break His.

Ann Voskamp

Eucharisteo—thanksgiving—always precedes the miracle.

Ann Voskamp

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

Ann Voskamp

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

Ann Voskamp

You only begin to change your life when you begin to change the way you see.

Ann Voskamp

Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus.

Ann Voskamp

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

Ann Voskamp

When the laundry is for the dozen arms of children or the dozen legs, it's true, I think I'm due some appreciation. So comes a storm of trouble and lightning strikes joy. But when Christ is center, when dishes, laundry, work, is my song of thanks to Him, joy rains. Passionately serving Christ alone makes us the loving servant to all. When the eyes of the heart focus on God, and the hands on always washing the feet of Jesus alone - the bones, they sing joy, and the work returns to it's purest state: eucharisteo. The work becomes worship, a liturgy of thankfulness.

Ann Voskamp

Eucharisteo means 'to give thanks,' and give is a verb, something that we do. God calls me to do thanks. to give the thanks away. That thanks-giving might literally become thanks-living. That our lives become the very blessings we have received. I am blessed. I can bless. Imagine! I could let Him make me the gift! I could be the joy!

Ann Voskamp

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