Ann Voskamp Quotes

God is a God of the present. God is always in the moment, be that moment hard or easy, joyful and painful.

The Commandments of God are higher than all the treasures of the earth. Whoever has acquired them has received God within himself.

You have no questions to ask of any body, no new way that you need inquire after; no oracle that you need to consult; for whilst you shut yourself up in patience, meekness, humility, and resignation to God, you are in the very arms of Christ, your heart is His dwelling-place, and He lives and works in you.

God is no further from you on your worst day than He is on your best day. Just open your heart to receive Him and His love.

Instead of focusing on that unappeasable person, refocus on Jesus, who accepts you unconditionally.

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

There is no place in my soul, no corner of my character, where God is not.

I live and love in God's peculiar light.

We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.

Jesus is a divine guest inside of you all the time - one who loves, understands, sees and hears you. He wants to live in oneness with you... to be the centerpiece of everything you do.

My faith is with me always.

I feel nobody can be against me when God is within me.

Divine love is perfect peace and joy, it is a freedom from all disquiet, it is all content and happiness; and makes everything to rejoice in itself.

We suffer much agony because we try to get from people what only God can give us, which is a sense of worth and value. Look to God for what you need, not to people.

The Lord IS my shepherd. Not was, not may be, nor will be. . . is my shepherd on Sunday, is on Monday, and is through every day of the week; is in January, is in December, and every month of the year, is at home, and is in China; is in peace, and is in war; in abundance, and in penury.

But by faith you look in the mirror and see a robed prodigal bearing the ring of grace on your finger and the kiss of your Father on your face.

God is love (1 John 4:8, 16) and God is sovereign (Acts 4:24). Those biblical truths must define our response to every circumstance in life.

Sin and grace, absence and presence, tragedy and comedy, they divide the world between them and where they meet head on, the Gospel happens.

Thus there will be three effects of nearness to Jesus humility, happiness, and holiness.

God is love and if you are ready, he always is.

Good friends find pleasure in one another's company. Let us know pleasure in the company of our best Friend, a Friend who can do everything for us, a friend who loves us beyond measure. Here in the Blessed Sacrament we can talk to him straight from the heart. We can open our souls to him, tell him what we need, beg him for powerful graces. We are perfectly free to approach the King of the universe with full confidence and without fear.

We are never less alone than when we are in the society of a single, faithful friend; never less deserted than when we are carried in tne arms of the All-Powerful.

Spiritual is hooked up to the invisible umbilical cord of my Lord, Kumbiya.

Christ be with me, Christ within me, Christ behind me, Christ before me, Christ beside me, Christ to win me, Christ to comfort me and restore me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me, Christ in quiet, Christ in danger, Christ in hearts of all that love me, Christ in mouth of friend and stranger.

Jesus Christ does not save the worthy, but the unworthy. Your plea must not be righteousness but guilt