Rejecting joy to stand in solidarity with the suffering doesn't rescue the suffering. Ann Voskamp More Quotes by Ann Voskamp More Quotes From Ann Voskamp Living radical isn't about where you live - it's about how you love. Ann Voskamp where-you-live radical There are two kinds of doubt: one that fully lives into the questions, and one that uses the questions as weapons against fully living. Ann Voskamp weapons doubt two You love as well as you are willing to be inconvenienced. Ann Voskamp willing wells God gives the world enough of what it needs. All He asks is that we distribute what He gives. Ann Voskamp giving world needs God doesn't want your leftovers. God wants your love overtures, your first-overs, because He is your first love. Ann Voskamp leftovers first-love want Gratitude for the seemingly insignificant—a seed—this plants the giant miracle. Ann Voskamp gratitude positivity grateful Only speak words that make souls stronger. Ann Voskamp stronger speak soul We want clarity -- and God gives a call. We want a road map --- and God gives a relationship. We want answers -- and God gives His hand. Ann Voskamp answers giving hands But, someone, please give me—who is born again but still so much in need of being born anew—give me the details of how to live in the waiting cocoon before the forever begins? Ann Voskamp waiting forever giving God is patiently transfiguring all the notes of my life into the song of His Son. Ann Voskamp notes song son Being in a hurry. Getting to the next thing without fully entering the thing in front of me. I cannot think of a single advantage I've ever gained from being in a hurry. But a thousand broken and missed things, tens of thousands, lie in the wake of all the rushing.... Through all that haste I thought I was making up time. It turns out I was throwing it away. Ann Voskamp rushing lying thinking You, who were made by Love, made for love-- be still and know and watch love come down. Ann Voskamp made love-is watches We were made to live in a posture of grateful worship, and when we live in praise we live our purpose, and all the pieces fall in place, us all falling down in thanks. Ann Voskamp gratitude grateful fall Hurry always empties a soul. Ann Voskamp soul The answer to deep anxiety is the deep adoration of God. Ann Voskamp adoration anxiety answers Lament is a cry of belief in a good God, a God who has His ear to our hearts, a God who transfigures the ugly into beauty. Complaint is the bitter howl of unbelief in any benevolent God in this moment, a distrust in the love-beat of the Father's heart. Ann Voskamp ears heart father Sometimes you don’t know when you’re taking the first step through a door until you’re already inside. Ann Voskamp steps doors firsts When we fixate on the worst in something, we render ourselves incapable of fixing anything... But attend to the good in something - and we act towards the best in everything. Ann Voskamp fixing incapable worst 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 bows moments ifs I am a hunter of beauty and I move slow and I keep the eyes wide, every fiber of every muscle sensing all wonder and this is the thrill of the hunt and I could be an expert on the life full, the beauty meat that lurks in every moment. I hunger to taste life. God. Ann Voskamp meat eye moving
