Ann Voskamp Quotes

I desire to bless and praise the name of God most high for appointing me my birth in a land of Gospel Light where the glorious tidings of a Saviour and of pardon and salvation through Him have been continually sounding in mine ears.

Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fact that God offered a way for man to return to a positive relationship with Him.

When we learn to read the story of Jesus and see it as the story of the love of God, doing for us what we could not do for ourselves--that insight produces, again and again, a sense of astonished gratitude which is very near the heart of authentic Christian experience.

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

Give thanks to the most high.

Faith then, in its relation to salvation, is that confidence by which we accept it as a free gift from the Saviour, and is the only possible way in which the gift of God could be appropriated.

May you also remember this Thanksgiving not only the obvious gifts that God has given you, but His spiritual blessings, as well. The greatest gift of all is Jesus Christ, and the salvation God offers us in Him.

The Gospel is not a fire insurance policy for the next world, but a life assurance policy for this world.

A true Christian is a man who never for a moment forgets what God has done for him in Christ and whose whole comportment and whose activity have their root in the sentiment of gratitude.

Our [people's] very saving is associated with our gratitude. Which follows: if our fall in the garden was ingratitude, then salvation must be intimately related to giving of thanks.

The only basis on which to work for God is an esteemed appreciation of his deliverance.

I believe that my own Christian faith does indeed make universal claims.

Be assured that Christianity is something more than forms and creeds and ceremonies: there is life, and power, and reality, in our holy faith.

For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.

What value is there in faith without works? And what are they worth if they are not united to the merits of Jesus Christ, our only good?

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 never had an intellectual struggle with the Bible, with the gospel, with the claims of Christ.

I say grace. I'm a big believer in grace. I happen to believe in a God that made all the food and so I'm pretty grateful for that and I thank him for that. But I'm also thankful for the people that put the food on the table.

It confuses me that Christian living is not simpler. The gospel, the very good news, is simple.

Our hope in life beyond death is a hope made possible, not by some general sentimental belief in life after death, but by our participation in the life of Christ.

Someday I suspect, when Jesus has definitely got me for a sunbeam, my works may be adequately assessed.

I committed my life to Christ, and that faith has been most important to me ever since.

The name of Jesus, like a secret charm, awakened similar emotions in the hearts of all the converts, and called immediately into action every feeling of moral loveliness, and every desire of dutiful obedience, which constitute Christian purity.

To believe Christ's cross to be a friend, as he himself is a friend, is also a special act of faith.

I know with all my heart and soul that God lives. I believe He will enlighten our lives with His love for each of us if we strive to be worthy of that love, in the holy name of Jesus Christ, amen.