450 Quotes by 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.

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

When we lay the soil of our hard lives open to the rain of grace and let joy penetrate our cracked and dry places, let joy soak into our broken skin and deep crevices, life grows. How can this not be the best thing for the world? For us?

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

The brave who focus on all things good and all things beautiful and all things true, even in the small, who give thanks for it and discover joy even in the here and now, they are the change agents who bring fullest Light to all the world.

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

We aren't here to one-up one another, but to help one another up.

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

Just that maybe … maybe you don’t want to change the story, because you don’t know what a different ending holds.