Author: Ann Voskamp

Quotes

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.

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.

- Ann Voskamp

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.

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.

- Ann Voskamp

A simplified Christmas isn't about circumstances as much as it is about focus.

A simplified Christmas isn't about circumstances as much as it is about focus.

- Ann Voskamp

Counting one thousand gifts, I discovered I could count on God.

Counting one thousand gifts, I discovered I could count on God.

- Ann Voskamp

I think the fall in Eden was ultimately a failure to give thanks.

I think the fall in Eden was ultimately a failure to give thanks.

- Ann Voskamp

Giving thanks is that: making the canyon of pain into a megaphone to proclaim the ultimate goodness of God when Satan and all the world would sneer at us to recant.

Giving thanks is that: making the canyon of pain into a megaphone to proclaim the ultimate goodness of God when Satan and all the world would sneer at us to recant.

- Ann Voskamp

Get this, kids - how a man proposes isn't what makes him romantic. It's how a man purposes to lay down his life that makes him romantic.

Get this, kids - how a man proposes isn't what makes him romantic. It's how a man purposes to lay down his life that makes him romantic.

- Ann Voskamp

Adults are tempted to produce and perform Christmas for their kids and their families, and they arrive at Christmas Day weary and disillusioned.

Adults are tempted to produce and perform Christmas for their kids and their families, and they arrive at Christmas Day weary and disillusioned.

- Ann Voskamp

Whatever I'm writing comes organically out of my life.

Whatever I'm writing comes organically out of my life.

- Ann Voskamp

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