“Feel thanks and it is impossible to feel angry. We can only feel one emotion at time. We get to choose which… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Gratitude is not only a response to God in good times - it's ultimately the very will of God in hard times.… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
We give thanks to God not because of how we feel, but because of Who He is. — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“...this counting blessings was the unlocking of the mystery of joy, joy, "the gigantic secret of the Christian," joy hiding in gratitude… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share 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… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Gratitude is the most fruitful way of deepening your consciousness that you are a divine choice. — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Learning slowly to not be so reactionary while inserting verbal gratitude into stressful situations is almost like being healed of mental blindness. — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“When the laundry is for the dozen arms of children or the dozen legs, it's true, I think I'm due some appreciation.… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share 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… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
...life change comes when we receive life with thanks and ask for nothing to change. — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Remembering with thanks is what causes us to trust - to really believe. — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“... take the pain that is given, give thanks for it, and transform it into a joy that fulfills all emptiness.” — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“Eucharisteo means 'to give thanks,' and give is a verb, something that we do. God calls me to do thanks. to give… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“I speak the unseen into seeing and I can feel it, this steady breathing in the rhythm of grace--'give thanks (in), give… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“The act of sacrificing thank offerings to God—even for the bread and cup of cost, for cancer and crucifixion—this prepares the way… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Every breath is a battle between grudgery and gratitude. Give thanks...and you win joy. — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
It's habits that can imprison you and it's habits that can free you. But when thanks to God becomes a habit -… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“This is the crux of Christianity: to remember and give thanks, 'eucharisteo'.” — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“As long as thanks is possible, then joy is always possible. Joy is always possible. Whenever, meaning—now; wherever, meaning—here. The holy grail… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Joy is always a function of gratitude - and gratitude is always a function of perspective. — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Thanksgiving creates abundance; and the miracle of multiplying happens when I give thanks-take the just one loaf, say it is enough, and… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share 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… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“Trauma's storm can mask the Christ and feelings can lie. I draw all the hurting voices close and I tough their scars with a… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“How long does it take for your soul to recognize that your life is full? The slower the living, the greater the sense of… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“For forty long years, God's people daily eat manna - a substance whose name literally mans 'What is it?' Hungry, they choose to gather… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
The real romantics imagine greying and sagging and wrinkling as the deepening of something sacred. — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Scales always lie. They don't make a scale that ever told the truth about value, about worth, about significance. — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Darkness transfigures into light, bad transfigures into good, grief transfigures into grace, empty transfigures into full. God wastes nothing – ‘makes everything work out… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“And the saddest of all may be when we give away our lives to insignificant things, things we didn’t realize we subconsciously loved. Turns… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“Satan's sin becomes the first sin of all humanity: the sin of ingratitude .” — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Simplicity is never a matter of circumstances; simplicity is a matter of focus. So in the midst of educating and parenting our children, we… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Every day, with every word, we get to decide: Do we mar the world, or mark the world? — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
