Quote

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

Ann Voskamp

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
Author
Writer
Thanks
Gratitude
Battle
Joy
Winning
Give
Giving
Breath
Every
Breaths

More quotes by Ann Voskamp

Image
It's the greatest compliment when the writer becomes invisible in the whole process.
Ann Voskamp
Image
Any kind of love that lacks the iron of the Cross in it, is anemic love.
Ann Voskamp
Image
God appoints people who do disappoint - to point to a God who never disappoints.
Ann Voskamp
Image
Fullness of joy is discovered only in the emptying of will.
Ann Voskamp
Image
We only enter into the full life if our faith gives thanks. Because how else do we accept His free gift of salvation if not with thanksgiving? Thanksgiving is the evidence of our acceptance of whatever He gives. Thanksgiving is the manifestation of our Yes! to His grace.
Ann Voskamp
Image
The cynics, they can only speak of the dark, of the obvious, and this is not hard. For all it's supposed sophistication, it's cynicism that's simplistic. In a fallen world, how profound is to see the cracks?
Ann Voskamp
Image
Research actually indicates that if you write down what you're grateful for, it increases your happiness by 25 percent. And who doesn't want that? And God's word says (1 Thessalonians 5), Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus. Who doesn't want to know exactly what God's will is for them?
Ann Voskamp
Image
We're called to do more than believe in God, we're called to live in God.
Ann Voskamp
Image
Only speak words that make souls stronger.
Ann Voskamp
Image
I was simply writing out our family stories in my online journal, scratching out what I want to remember, what I was wrestling out with God. Unbeknownst to me, two readers of the posts, both published authors, contacted their agent, Bill Jensen, within 24 hours of each other, encouraging him to drop me a line. Which he did.
Ann Voskamp
Image
I am a hunter of beauty and I move slow and I keep the eyes wide, every fiber of every muscle sensing all wonder and this is the thrill of the hunt and I could be an expert on the life full, the beauty meat that lurks in every moment. I hunger to taste life. God.
Ann Voskamp
Image
The message of Christmas is not that we can make peace. Or that we can make love, make light, make gifts, or make this world save itself. The message of Christmas is that this world’s a mess and we can never save ourselves from ourselves and we need a Messiah.
Ann Voskamp
Image
God gives us time. And who has time for God?
Ann Voskamp
Image
You, who were made by Love, made for love-- be still and know and watch love come down.
Ann Voskamp
Image
Until we call attention to the moments of our lives, we miss our lives.
Ann Voskamp
Image
Can God be counted on? Count blessings and find out how many of His bridges have already held.
Ann Voskamp
Image
Gratitude's not a natural posture. The prince of darkness is ultimately a spoiled ingrate, and I've spent most of my life as kin to the fist-shaker.
Ann Voskamp
Image
I fly to Paris and discover how to make love to God.
Ann Voskamp
Image
You've got to use the life you've been given to give others life
Ann Voskamp
Image
No one told me that it would all happen at the same hallowed time: Mothering is at once the hardest and the holiest and the happiest.
Ann Voskamp