The joy of the Lord is your strength and the person of Christ is your unassailable joy - and the battle for… — 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
Real joy is not found in having the best of everything but in trusting that God is making the best of everything. — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“Joy is the realest reality, the fullest life, and joy is always given, never grasped. God gives gifts and I give thanks… — 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
“Is that why joy hurts--God stretching us open to receive more of Himself?” — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“Instead of filling with expectations, the joy-filled expect nothing--and are filled.” — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
When we lay the soil of our hard lives open to the rain of grace and let joy penetrate our cracked and… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“Do I really smother my own joy because I believe that anger achieves more than love?” — 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
Grace is alive, living waters. If I dam up the grace, hold the blessings tight, joy within dies... waters that have no… — 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
“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
Do I really smother my own joy because I believe that anger achieves more than love? That Satan's way is more powerful,… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
I don't really want more time; I just want enough time. Time to breathe deep and time to see real and time… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
How my eyes see, perspective, is my key to enter into His gates. I can only do so with thanksgiving. If my… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
“When service is unto people, the bones can grow weary, the frustration deep. Because, agrees Dorothy Sayers, "whenever man is made the… — 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
