Ann Voskamp Hank Quotations

...life change comes when we receive life with thanks and ask for nothing to change.

Eucharisteo—thanksgiving—always precedes the miracle.

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

It’s impossible to give thanks and simultaneously feel fear

Remembering with thanks is what causes us to trust - to really believe.

Are stress and worry evidence of a soul too lazy, too undisciplined, to keep gaze fixed on God?

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

Gratitude's not a natural posture. The prince of darkness is ultimately a spoiled ingrate, and I've spent most of my life as kin to the fist-shaker.

Thanksgiving creates abundance; and the miracle of multiplying happens when I give thanks-take the just one loaf, say it is enough, and give thanks-and He miraculously makes it more than enough.

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

And when I give thanks for the seemingly microscopic, I make a place for God to grow within me.

Faith thanks God in the middle of the story.

The whole of the life -- even the hard -- is made up of the minute parts, and if I miss the infinitesimals, I miss the whole. These are new language lessons, and I live them out. There is a way to live the big of giving thanks in all things. It is this: to give thanks in this one small thing. The moments will add up.

We give thanks to God not because of how we feel, but because of Who He is.

I know there is poor and hideous suffering, and I've seen the hungry and the guns that go to war. I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give thanks for early light dappled through leaves and the heavy perfume of wild roses in early July and the song of crickets on humid nights and the rivers that run and the stars that rise and the rain that falls and all the good things that a good God gives.

It's habits that can imprison you and it's habits that can free you. But when thanks to God becomes a habit - so joy in God becomes your life.

I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give thanks the heavy perfume of wild roses in early July and the song of crickets on summer humid nights and the rivers that run and the stars that rise and the rain that falls and all the good things that a good God gives.