25 Best Ann Voskamp Quotes From The Bestselling Memoirist

Moumita Dutta
Dec 12, 2023 By Moumita Dutta
Originally Published on Jan 27, 2021
Edited by Jacob Fitzbright
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Ann Voskamp is recognized as a Canadian blogger and author who encourages and shelters the broken through her words.

Ann Voskamp's quotes embrace all hues of grace, Jesus, joy, family, and love with a part lingering in burdens and purposes of life. She has also published some brilliantly captivating books that are all about gratitude in the name of Christ.

Ann Voskamp has written, New York Times Best Seller, 'One Thousand Gifts: A Dare To Live Fully Right Where You Are'. Other few books by her are 'Be the Gift: Let Your Broken Be Turned Into Abundance', 'The Way Of Abundance', to name a few.

She is one of the authors who create theme-based memoirs on spirituality. Her books are quite appealing and reflective. These quotes are a destination spot for encouraging the folks and stirs the heart out.

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Quotes From One Thousand Gifts Book

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'One Thousand Gifts' is a masterpiece by Ann Voskamp, where she has gathered and shared her personal stories, which are broken yet beautiful and are all about how a disheartened person learns to thank God for everything.

Here is a collection of 'One Thousand Gifts' quotes to leave you invigorated and cheered up to live all the good times of life completely.

1. "Life change comes when we receive life with thanks and ask for nothing to change."

- Ann Voskamp, 'One Thousand Gifts', 2011.

2. "In a world addicted to speed; I blur the moments into one unholy smear."

- Ann Voskamp, 'One Thousand Gifts', 2011.

3. "God is patiently transfiguring all the notes of my life into the song of His Son."

- Ann Voskamp, 'One Thousand Gifts', 2011.

4. "To live either fully alive … or in empty nothingness? It's the inbetween that drives us mad."

- Ann Voskamp, 'One Thousand Gifts', 2011.

5. "Thanksgiving - giving, thanks in everything - prepares the way that God might show us His fullest salvation in Christ."

- Ann Voskamp, 'One Thousand Gifts', 2011.

6. "Be at peace. Bend the knee and be small and let God give what God chooses to give because He only gives love and whispers surprised thanks. This is the fuel for joy's flame."

- Ann Voskamp, 'One Thousand Gifts', 2011.

7. "Every moment I live, I live bowed to something. And if I don't see God, I'll bow down before something else."

- Ann Voskamp, 'One Thousand Gifts', 2011.

8. "Sometimes, you don't know when you're taking the first step through a door until you're already inside."

- Ann Voskamp, 'One Thousand Gifts', 2011.

Ann Voskamp Quotes About Faith And God

Here is a list of Ann Voskamp quotes God and spirituality that will pour your feelings out and are worth sharing with your friends.

9. "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."

- Ann Voskamp, 'One Thousand Gifts: A Dare To Live Fully Right Where You Are', 2011.

10. "The answer to deep anxiety is the deep adoration of God."

- Ann Voskamp.

11. "Worry is belief gone wrong. Because you don't believe that God will get it right."

- Ann Voskamp.

12. "If God didn't withhold from us His very own Son, will God withhold anything we need?"

- Ann Voskamp, 'One Thousand Gifts: A Dare To Live Fully Right Where You Are', 2011.

13. "When the church isn't for the suffering and broken, then the church isn't for Christ."

- Ann Voskamp, 'The Broken Way: A Daring Path Into Abundant Life', 2016.

14. "The life that counts blessings discovers its yielding more than it seems."

- Ann Voskamp, 'One Thousand Gifts Devotional: Reflections On Finding Everyday Graces', 2012.

15. "The true Love Dare. To move into His presence and listen to His love unending and know the grace uncontainable. This is the vault of the miracles. The only thing that can change us, the world, is this- all His love."

- Ann Voskamp, 'One Thousand Gifts: A Dare To Live Fully Right Where You Are', 2011.

16. "The world has enough women who know how to do their hair. It needs women who know how to do hard and holy things."

- Ann Voskamp, 'The Broken Way: A Daring Path Into Abundant Life', 2016.

17. "I stop the spinning thoughts, the probing questions, the hands sorting, the laundry work, because God needs knees more than hands."

- Ann Voskamp, 'One Thousand Gifts Devotional: Reflections On Finding Everyday Graces', 2012.

Inspirational Quotes By Ann Voskamp

 

Ann Voskamp's quotes will take you to the good times as they are all embroidered with the wisdom and life experiences of the author.

18. "When grief is deepest, words are fewest."

- Ann Voskamp.

19. "Maybe grieving over plans changed is part of the plan to change us."

- Ann Voskamp, 'The Broken Way: A Daring Path Into Abundant Life', 2016.

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

- Ann Voskamp.

21. "From all of our beginnings, we keep reliving the Garden story."

- Ann Voskamp, 'One Thousand Gifts: A Dare To Live Fully Right Where You Are', 2011.

22. "You are the most loved, not when you're pretending to have it all together; you are actually the most loved when you feel broken and falling apart."

- Ann Voskamp, 'The Broken Way: A Daring Path Into Abundant Life', 2016.

23. "God doesn't want to number your failures or count your accomplishments as much as He wants you to have an encounter with Him."

- Ann Voskamp, 'The Greatest Gift: Unwrapping The Full Love Story Of Christmas', 2013.

24. "Too often, we want clarity, and God wants us to come closer."

- Ann Voskamp, 'A Dare To Hope', 2016.

25. "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?"

- Ann Voskamp, 'One Thousand Gifts: A Dare To Live Fully Right Where You Are', 2011.

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Written by Moumita Dutta

Bachelor of Arts specializing in Journalism and Mass Communication, Postgraduate Diploma in Sports Management

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Moumita DuttaBachelor of Arts specializing in Journalism and Mass Communication, Postgraduate Diploma in Sports Management

A content writer and editor with a passion for sports, Moumita has honed her skills in producing compelling match reports and stories about sporting heroes. She holds a degree in Journalism and Mass Communication from the Indian Institute of Social Welfare and Business Management, Calcutta University, alongside a postgraduate diploma in Sports Management.

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