450 Quotes by Ann Voskamp

Life is so urgent it necessitates living slow.

I only live the full life when I live fully in the moment.

Forget the face of God, and forget your own name is Beloved.

The mind would rather fret about the future or pine over the past — so the mind can cling to its own illusion of control. But the current moment? It cannot be controlled. And what a mind can’t control, it tends to discount. Brush past ... over. It’s the battle plan of the enemy of the soul — to keep us blind to this current moment, the one we can’t control, to keep us blind to Him, the One who controls everything.

Sometimes, too often, I don't want to muster the energy. Stress and anxiety seem easier.

Life is dessert — too brief to hurry.

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.

Sometimes you aren’t listening to your body because you’re listening to everybody else’s expectations.

But, someone, please give me—who is born again but still so much in need of being born anew—give me the details of how to live in the waiting cocoon before the forever begins?