Ann Voskamp Quotes

Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23, I was broken in my soul. I didn't know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life, and I came out on the other side and didn't even smell like smoke.

Because when God heals a body, that is temporal; but when God saves a soul, that has eternal importance.

Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue.

Sometimes I think Jesus can't wait until we preachers finish our boring sermons. He can't wait to heal people.

I'd like to thank Jesus. He's the one who changed my life.

You don't know what God can do with your broken pieces until you give God your broken pieces.

A broken life in the hands of God is ripe for blessing.

The most common way Jesus comes into our lives is through a broken heart.

I am fallen, flawed and imperfect. Yet drenched in the grace and mercy that is found in Jesus Christ, there is strength

The opening of your hearts to receive the Lord Jesus Christ is not a work done by any power of your own, but the arm of the Lord is revealed therein.

Prayer is God's appointed means for appropriating the blessings that are ours in Christ Jesus.

Jesus raised the standard high so we would realize we couldn’t possibly do it without a savior.

The power of the Church is not a parade of flawless people, but of a flawless Christ who embraces our flaws. The Church is not made up of whole people, rather of the broken people who find wholeness in a Christ who was broken for us.

God will make right all that is wrong, He will take away the lingering effect of sin and what's not right in our lives. He knows how painful life in this world can be.

The birth of the baby Jesus stands as the most significant event in all history, because it has meant the pouring into a sick world the healing medicine of love which has transformed all manner of hearts for almost two thousand years.

I just hope people see that if God can do something beautiful with my broken pieces, then God truly has a plan for each and everyone of us.

Honestly, when I read the Scriptures, I really believe the Lord puts a heart in us when we become believers.

But I'm going to focus on salvation as well as physical healing.

Jesus is the only Savior, but not everybody who is saved by Him is aware that He is the one who is doing the saving.

Oh, come, Divine Physician, and bind up every broken bone. Come with Thy sacred nard which Thou hast compounded of Thine own heart's blood, and lay it home to the wounded conscience and let it feel its power. Oh! Give peace to those whose conscience is like the troubled sea which cannot rest.

The work of healing is not my work, but by faith, healing is done. The work of deliverance, great and mighty deliverance, is not my work but is my faith in Him. It is not the works of righteousness which I have done, but according to His grace. I am a product of His grace.

We're all going to experience death and failure and setbacks and disappointments and cancer and, you know, it's a really difficult world. And for me, God has always - in my relationship with Christ - He's given me hope and peace.

Following Jesus is not about diligently keeping a set of rules or conjuring up the moral fortitude to lead good lives. It's about loving God and enjoying Him

Christ gives peace to the most sinful and miserable that come to Him. He heals the broken in heart and binds up their wounds.

Let us never forget this, he is pure mercy, let us go to Jesus!