Joy Quotes by Ann Voskamp

“Only self can kill joy.”

— Ann Voskamp

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

— Ann Voskamp

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

— Ann Voskamp

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

— Ann Voskamp

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

— Ann Voskamp

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

— Ann Voskamp

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

— Ann Voskamp

“Instead of filling with expectations, the joy-filled expect nothing--and are filled.”

— Ann Voskamp

“Do I really smother my own joy because I believe that anger achieves more than love?”

— Ann Voskamp

“... take the pain that is given, give thanks for it, and transform it into a joy that fulfills all emptiness.”

— Ann Voskamp

Joy and pain, they are but two arteries of the one heart that pumps through all those who don't numb themselves to…

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The joy of the Lord is your strength and the person of Christ is your unassailable joy - and the battle for…

— Ann Voskamp

Comparison is a thug that robs your joy. But it's even more than that - Comparison makes you a thug who beats…

— Ann Voskamp

“Joy is the realest reality, the fullest life, and joy is always given, never grasped. God gives gifts and I give thanks…

— Ann Voskamp

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

— Ann Voskamp

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

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“... I can see it in the looking back, how this daily practice of the discipline of gratitude is the way to…

— Ann Voskamp

“...this counting blessings was the unlocking of the mystery of joy, joy, "the gigantic secret of the Christian," joy hiding in gratitude…

— Ann Voskamp

“When we lay the soil of our hard lives opened the rain of grace and let Joy permeate our cracked and dry…

— Ann Voskamp

I receive grace. And through me, grace could flow on. Like a cycle of water in continuous movement, grace is meant to…

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How my eyes see, perspective, is my key to enter into His gates. I can only do so with thanksgiving. If my…

— Ann Voskamp

The brave who focus on all things good and all things beautiful and all things true, even in the small, who give…

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“When the laundry is for the dozen arms of children or the dozen legs, it's true, I think I'm due some appreciation.…

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“Time, what God first deemed holy above all else (Genesis 2:3). Thank God for the time, and very God enters that time,…

— Ann Voskamp

When we lay the soil of our hard lives open to the rain of grace and let joy penetrate our cracked and…

— Ann Voskamp

“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

“Humbly let go. Let go of trying to do, let go of trying to control, let go of my own way, let…

— Ann Voskamp

“When service is unto people, the bones can grow weary, the frustration deep. Because, agrees Dorothy Sayers, "whenever man is made the…

— Ann Voskamp

I make soup and I back bread and I know my supreme need is joy in God and I know I can't…

— Ann Voskamp

“It is true, I never stop wanting to learn the hard eucharisteo for deathbeds and dark skies and the prodigal sons. But…

— Ann Voskamp

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

“When service is unto people, the bones can grow weary, the frustration deep. Because, agrees Dorothy Sayers, 'whenever man is made the…

— Ann Voskamp

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

— Ann Voskamp

“Is that why joy hurts--God stretching us open to receive more of Himself?”

— Ann Voskamp

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

— Ann Voskamp

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

— Ann Voskamp

“But the secret to joy is to keep seeking God where we doubt He is.”

— Ann Voskamp

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

— Ann Voskamp

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

— Ann Voskamp

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

— Ann Voskamp