Ann Voskamp
Ann Voskamp
Ann Voskampis the author of the New York Times Bestseller, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are, published by Zondervan...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth10 August 1973
CountryCanada
bestowed edit god mine
I write a chapter, then edit it and edit it and edit it and edit it. I don't think we mine creativity from within. It's bestowed from on high, from God.
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Counting one thousand gifts, I discovered I could count on God.
bottle catching falling god
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.
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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.
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We're called to do more than believe in God, we're called to live in God.
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All God makes is good. Can it be that that which seems to oppose the will of God actually is used of Him to accomplish the will of God?
giving needs need-god
Because nothing is greater and we have no greater need, God gives God.
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All fear is but the notion that God's love ends.
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Faith thanks God in the middle of the story.
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Adults are tempted to produce and perform Christmas for their kids and their families, and they arrive at Christmas Day weary and disillusioned.
life
Whatever I'm writing comes organically out of my life.
romantics
The real romantics imagine greying and sagging and wrinkling as the deepening of something sacred.
scales truth
Scales always lie. They don't make a scale that ever told the truth about value, about worth, about significance.
kids lay life man proposes 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.