Ann Voskamp Joy Quotations

Comparison is a thug that robs your joy. But its even more than that - Comparison makes you a thug who beats down somebody - or your soul.

Rejecting joy to stand in solidarity with the suffering doesn't rescue the suffering.

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?

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

I make soup and I back bread and I know my supreme need is joy in God and I know I can't experience deep joy in God until I deep trust in God. I shine sinks and polish through to the realization that trusting God is my most urgent need. If I deep trusted God in all the facets of my life, wouldn't that deep heal my anxiety, my self-condemnation, my soul holes? The fear is suffocating, terrorizing, and I want the remedy, and it is trust. Trust is everything. If fear keeps our lives small, does a life that receives all of God in this moment grow large too?

Grace is alive, living waters. If I dam up the grace, hold the blessings tight, joy within dies... waters that have no life.

Fullness of joy is discovered only in the emptying of will.

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

Holy joy lies in the habit of murmuring thanks to God for the smallest of graces.

The joy of the Lord is your strength and the person of Christ is your unassailable joy - and the battle for joy is nothing less than fighting the good fight of faith.

You will be most remembered-by what brought you most joy.

Stress isn't only a joy stealer. The way we respond to it can be sin.

When we lay the soil of our hard lives open to the rain of grace and let joy penetrate our cracked and dry places, let joy soak into our broken skin and deep crevices, life grows. How can this not be the best thing for the world? For us?

Joy is the realest reality, the fullest life, and joy is always given, never grasped. God gives gifts and I give thanks and I unwrap the gift given: joy.

Real joy is not found in having the best of everything but in trusting that God is making the best of everything.

As long as thanks is possible, then joy is always possible.

...the secret to joy is to keep seeking God where we doubt He is.

Busy is a choice. Stress is a choice. Joy is a choice. Choose well.

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.