Ann Voskamp Quotes

God will finish what He authors, but He is not obligated to finish what He has not authored.

When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.

God will open any doors he wants to open, and if He closes doors, that's fine, too.

I believe firmly in God's control in life.

God answers prayers, but he doesn't always answer it your way.

God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid.

Time is not of man; it is of God.

Be sure they sleep not whom God needs.

I have the greater glory of God, the history is His story, that He is in charge and ultimately He knows what He's doing.

Beautiful is the moment in which we understand that we are no more than an instrument of God; we live only as long as God wants us to live; we can only do as much as God makes us able to do; we are only as intelligent as God would have us be.

Nothing can be more consoling to the man of God, than the conviction that the Lord who made the world governs the world; and that every event, great and small, prosperous and adverse, is under the absolute disposal of Him who doth all things well, and who regulates all things for the good of his people.

The will of God prevails.

God has plans, not problems for our lives.

If things happen it's because God has prepared me. God has great things for us. If it's God's will that I be there, there I will be.

What God chooses for us children of men is always the best.

Our fates are in the hands of An Almighty God, to whom I can with pleasure confide my own; he can save us, or destroy us; his Councils are fixed and cannot be disappointed, and all his designs will be Accomplished.

Just take one step at a time, trusting that God still has a plan for you, and He will make the best out of your situation.

What men call accident is God's own part.

There has been a most Providential Guidance which the want of prudence, vigilance, or judgement has not impeded, and it is here that we can most clearly see the designs of God.

God made us. He's in charge of everything, right? If He didn't like us, why didn't he change us?

God never made His work for man to mend.

Life is God's novel. Let him write it.

I believe that whatever comes at a particular time is a blessing from God.

Why is this man in the White House? The majority of Americans did not vote for him. Why is he there? And I tell you this morning that he's in the White House because God put him there for a time such as this.

Destiny is not designed by mere mortals like us. It is crafted by God.