Top 100 Voskamp Quotes
#1. Pantheism, seeing the natural world as divine, is a very different thing than seeing divine God present in all things
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#2. All fear is but the notion that God's love ends.
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#3. God's purposes are not for me to understand His plans: His plan is for me to understand Who He is.
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#4. When the church isn't for the suffering and broken, then the church isn't for Christ. Because Jesus, with His pierced side, is always on the side of the broken.
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#5. Is that why joy hurts
God stretching us open to receive more of Himself?
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#6. As long as thanks is possible, then joy is always possible.
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#8. It's the battle plan of the enemy of the soul - to keep us blind to this current moment, the one we can't control, to keep us blind to Him, the One who controls everything.
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#9. Real joy is not found in having the best of everything but in trusting that God is making the best of everything.
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#11. Counting one thousand gifts, I discovered I could count on God.
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#12. There are two kinds of doubt: one that fully lives into the questions, and one that uses the questions as weapons against fully living.
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#13. The only place we have to come before we die is the place of seeing God.
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#14. How does it save the world to reject unabashed joy when it is joy that saves us? Rejecting joy to stand in solidarity with the suffering doesn't rescue the suffering. The converse does. (Page 58)
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#15. To lack faith perhaps isn't as much an intellectual disbelief in the existence of God as fear and distrust that there is a good God.
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#16. The answer to anxiety is always to exalt Christ.
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#17. At the last, this is what will determine a fulfilling, meaningful life, a life that, behind all the facades, every one of us longs to live: gratitude for the blessings that expresses itself by becoming the blessing.
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#18. Could a name be any shorter? Three letters without even the flourish of an e. Ann, a trio of curves and lines.
It means "full of grace".
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#19. Don't belittle everyday pots and pans - they are the means to carry theology into the everyday of our lives.
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#20. When I fully enter time's swift current, enter into the current moment with the weight of all my attention, I slow the torrent with the weight of me all here.
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#21. The sun climbs the horizon. I throw back the covers, take another breath, and begin. I get to. I get to live.
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#22. I am more sinful and flawed than I ever dared believe, more loved and welcomed than I ever dared hope. ELYSE M. FITZPATRICK
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#23. How do I wake up to joy and grace and beauty and all that is the fullest life when I must stay numb to losses and crushed dreams and all that empties me out?
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#24. The true Love Dare. To move into His presence and listen to His love unending and know the grace uncontainable. This is the vault of the miracles. The only thing that can change us, the world, is this- all His love.
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#25. God gives the world enough of what it needs. All He asks is that we distribute what He gives.
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#26. I do what I always need to do. I preach it. I preach it to the person I need to preach to the most. I preach to me.
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#27. God gives God. That is the gift God always ultimately gives. Because nothing is greater and we have no greater need, God gives God. God gives God, and we only need to slow long enough to unwrap the greatest Gift with our time: time in His Word, time in His presence, time at His feet.
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#28. I want a life that makes music - not just practices the piano.
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#29. There is unwavering peace today when an uncertain tomorrow is trusted to an unchanging God.
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#30. I think the fall in Eden was ultimately a failure to give thanks.
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#31. This counting blessings was the unlocking of the mystery of joy, joy, "the gigantic secret of the Christian," joy hiding in gratitude ... God had used the dare to give me this; led me all he way to give me this, live fully, fully live. Page 83
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#32. The only way to fight a feeling is with a feeling.
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#33. Lord, You are the only lens that can correct the vision of a life. And if I don't hunger daily for the bread of Your Word, I'll develop sight deficiency. Make me Word reflective - that I may have the right perspective.
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#34. Long, I am woman who speaks but one language, the language of the fall
discontentment and self-condemnation, the critical eye and the never satisfied.
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#35. This day is not a sieve, losing time. With each passing minute, each passing year, there's this deepening awareness that I am filling, gaining time. We stand on the brink of eternity.
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#36. True saints know that the place where all the joy comes from is far deeper than that of feelings; joy comes from the place of the very presence of God. Joy is God and God is joy and joy doesn't negate all other emotions - joy transcends all other emotions.
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#37. Can God be counted on? Count blessings and find out how many of His bridges have already held.
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#38. I didn't start with any specific steps, but through this intentional, daily practice of giving thanks, I found myself on a transformative journey that affected every aspect of my life - including all the broken places.
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#39. Suffering is not a problem that needs a solution as much as it's an experience that needs compassion. Because
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#40. Eucharisteo is giving thanks for grace. But in the breaking and giving of bread, in the washing of feet, Jesus makes it clear that eucharisteo is, yes, more: it is giving grace away.
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#41. Forget the face of God, and forget your own name is Beloved.
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#42. How to 'live' in a state of awe when life is mundane and ordinary?
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#43. Every time I surrender to stress, aren't I advertising the unreliability of God?
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#44. I don't think of myself as an author. But simply as a grateful child of God. John 3:27 has long been a life verse: "A man can receive nothing unless it has been given him from heaven." Any more words will only be solely a gift from Him. I can only faithfully wait.
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#45. to give thanks is an action and rejoice is a verb and these are not mere pulsing emotions. While I may not always feel joy, God asks me to give thanks in all things, because He knows that the feeling of joy begins in the action of thanksgiving.4
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#46. Life change comes when we receive life with thanks and ask for nothing to change.
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#47. God doesn't want to number your failures or count your accomplishments as much as He wants you to have an encounter with Him.
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#48. 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.
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#49. I don't want a Christmas you can buy. I don't want a Christmas you can make. What I want is a Christmas you can hold. A Christmas that holds me, remakes me, revives me. I want a Christmas that whispers, Jesus.
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#50. Prayer without ceasing is only possible in a life of continual thanks.
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#51. Only the Word is the answer to rightly reading the world, because The Word has nail-scarred hands that cup our face close, wipe away the tears running down, has eyes to look deep into our brimming ache, and whisper, I know. I know.
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#52. Entertaining the mind with trivial pretties when I haven't bowed the head and heart in a prayer longer than five minutes in a week.
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#53. Why do I lunge for control instead of joy? ... do I thin Jesus grace too impotent to give me the full life ... Whenever I am blind to joys well, isn't it because I don't believe in Gods care? P 130
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#54. A day is a pocket of possibility and it's always there, waiting for your willing hand.
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#55. Lord God, You are the Hound of heaven who hunts the lost down and captures us with grace. Today, make me the hound of now who hunts for glory and captures joy with just that one word: Thanks.
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#56. If I am truly in Christ, mustn't my initial act, too, always be an act of thanksgiving, returning to Jesus with thanks on the lips?
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#57. Start with a simple request, making it the refrain of your day: 'God, open the eyes of my heart.' This journey must be Spirit-led, every day.
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#58. I can see it in the looking back, how this daily practice of the discipline of gratitude is the way to daily practice the delight of God ...
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#59. Generosity does give birth to intimacy - but there's a far deeper intimacy when we're generous in sharing our brokenness.
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#60. Great thinkers are the grateful thankers - the real greats live gratefully.
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#61. of nightmares to reach, to seize. Joy. But where can I seize this holy grail of joy? I look back down to the page. Was this the clue to the quest of all most important? Deep chara joy is found only at the table of the euCHARisteo - the table of thanksgiving.
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#62. Communion, by necessity, always leads us into community.
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#63. On the night He was betrayed Jesus broke bread and lifted it up and gave THANKS. If Jesus can give thanks in that, can we not give thanks in all?
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#64. When you have an overwhelmed world, you don't have to have an underwhelmed soul - if Christ fills the thoughts.
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#65. Are stress and worry evidence of a soul too lazy, too undisciplined, to keep gaze fixed on God?
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#66. Love comes softly, it cannot be forced ... cannot bear the weight of our expectations. Love always comes in the surrender - in the falling.
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#67. When you're most wounded by words run to the only Word that always brings healing.
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#69. larger your life would be if your self could become smaller in it.
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#70. A pantheist's god is a passive god, but omnipresent God is Beauty who demands worship, passion, and the sacrifice of a life, for He owns it.
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#71. Work-worn, on a gingham towel draped over the cupboard. "All of them stillborn." I smother a sigh with a smile, weak and resigned. He takes it regardless. "Yeah ... " He too smiles soft, a hand letting
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#72. What she means? Sure, whatever. It's not like I thought that this is the carving, the flying, the healing of my wounds. Sometimes you don't know when you're
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#73. Girls rival each other. Women revive each other.
Girls empale each other. Women empower each other.
Girls compare each other. Women champion each other.
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#74. You only begin to change your life when you begin to change the way you see.
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#75. You were made for the place where your real # passion meets # compassion because there lies your real purpose.
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#76. Once you have tasted conviction, you can't bear to keep swallowing complacency.
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#77. Gratitude is at the center of a life of faith. It sounds to simple to be true, but isn't that the sign of all deep truth: so simple we're tempted to dismiss it, and so hard, it is exactly what God uses to change our hard lives.
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#78. I know I can't experience deep joy in God until I deep trust in God.
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#79. If I don't have words, it's a sign I'm not reading enough.
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#80. The act of sacrificing thank offerings to God - even for the bread and cup of cost, for cancer and crucifixion - this prepares the way for God to show us His fullest salvation from bitter, angry, resentful lives and from all sin that
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#81. Joy and pain, they are but two arteries of the one heart that pumps through all those who don't numb themselves to really living.
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#82. Emptiness itself can birth the fullness of grace beacuse in the emptiness we have the opportunity to turn to God, ...
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#83. They say memory jolts awake with trauma's electricity.
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#84. Slay the idol of the seen, break the idols of performance, and believe the state of my house doesn't reflect the state of my soul...it's the priorities unseen - the prayers, the relationships, the love while doing the work - that hold the meaning, the merit.
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#85. We don't see the material world for what it is meant to be: the means to communion with God ... There is a belief missing, that God is good and that he gives good gifts.
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#86. Pick up a yardstick to measure your life against anyone else's, and you've just picked up a stick and beaten up your own soul.
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#87. I receive grace. And through me, grace could flow on. Like a cycle of water in continuous movement, grace is meant to fall, a rain ... again, again, again. I could share the grace, multiply the joy, extend the table of the feast, enlarge the paradise of His presence. I am blessed. I can bless.
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#88. My own wild desire to protect my joy at all costs is the exact force that kills my joy. Flames need oxygen to light, Flames need a bit of wind.
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#89. The art of deep seeing makes gratitude possible.
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#90. All those years thinking I was saved and had said my yes to God, but was really living the no.
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#91. You will be most remembered-by what brought you most joy.
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#93. Lord God, Maker of all, when You give manna moments, may I give You thanks for the mystery. Because the manna that makes no sense - You will make it my sustenance. Today, in all the "what is it?" moments, turn me to give thanks for who You are.
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#94. The fear is suffocating, terrorizing, and I want the remedy, and it is trust. Trust is everything.
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#95. Counting one thousand gifts means counting the hard things - otherwise I've miscounted.
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#96. Realize that the real hidden cost of everything you buy- is how much life it cost you to get it.
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#97. And when I give thanks for the seemingly microscopic, I make a place for God to grow within me.
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#98. I am bell and He is sure wind, and He moves and I am rung ...
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#99. All God makes is good. Can it be that that which seems to oppose the will of God actually is used of Him to accomplish the will of God?
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#100. All new life labors out of the very bowels of darkness.
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