Ann Voskamp Quotes

I'm not going to tell you to meditate on what Christmas really means and be thankful.

Gratitude is what we radiate when we experience grace, and the soul was made to run on grace the way a 747 runs on rocket fuel.

God has blessed me with the gift of cheerfulness.

The best way to show your gratitude to God and people is to accept everything with joy....We may not be able to give much but we can always give the joy that springs from a heart that is in love with God. All over the world people are hungry and thirsty for God's love. We meet that hunger by spreading joy. Joy is one of the best safeguards against temptation.

For here lies the pleasure of living: In taking God's bounties, and giving The gifts back again.

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

Giving is a really big thing around Christmas, as well it should be. Christmas is about giving, and it all stems from the greatest gift the world has ever received - the gift of Jesus Christ.

I'm always happy for people when I see God blessing them the way he's blessed me.

I've been blessed. God's looked out for me, so, I'm happy.

An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.

I'm very thankful that I can make people happy just by signing my name.

I just find myself happy with the simple things. Appreciating the blessings God gave me.

Happiness is a great power of holiness. Thus, kind words, by their power of producing happiness, have also a power of producing holiness, and so of winning men to God.

The most important thing in anyone's life is to be giving something. The quality I can give is fun and joy and happiness. This is my gift.

The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!

Whatever your religion, you have to find internal happiness, which I found.

I'm so blessed, thank you Jesus!

I play because God blessed me to play this game and that's what I enjoy doing.

Let us thank God for having called us to His holy faith. It is a great gift, and the number of those who thank God for it is small.

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

God is glorified, not by our groans, but our thanksgivings; and all good thought and good action claim a natural alliance with good cheer.

When joy and prayer are married, their first born child is gratitude.

A child of God should be a visible beatitude for joy and happiness, and a living doxology for gratitude and adoration.

It is a comely fashion to be glad; Joy is the grace we say to God.

I wish that Christmas may be happy and heavenly, and the holidays glow with the gifts of the inner life that God will give to each one.