Author: Ann Voskamp

Quotes

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

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

Scales always lie. They don't make a scale that ever told the truth about value, about worth, about significance.

Scales always lie. They don't make a scale that ever told the truth about value, about worth, about significance.

- 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

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

When we can't bottle our tears up anymore, God catches every one in His bottle. God's catching every falling tear because He won't let us fall apart.

When we can't bottle our tears up anymore, God catches every one in His bottle. God's catching every falling tear because He won't let us fall apart.

- Ann Voskamp

Sometimes God answers our questions with questions.

Sometimes God answers our questions with questions.

- Ann Voskamp

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

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

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