Quotes by Ann Voskamp

About Ann Voskamp:

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The real romantics are the boring ones - they let another heart bore a hole deep into theirs.

Ann Voskamp

Measuring sticks try to rank some people as big and some people as small - but we aren't sizes. We are souls. There are no better people or worse people - there are only God-made souls.

Ann Voskamp

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

Ann Voskamp

When grief is deepest, words are fewest.

Ann Voskamp

The real romantics imagine greying and sagging and wrinkling as the deepening of something sacred.

Ann Voskamp

I came into this world the way every person on the planet does - with clenched fists.

Ann Voskamp

I'm not a fast writer at all. I come empty and wait upon the Lord. So it really is all a waiting process, a patient process.

Ann Voskamp

If I don't have words, it's a sign I'm not reading enough.

Ann Voskamp

... be radical about grace and relentless about truth and resolute about holiness...

Ann Voskamp

So now we pause. Still. Ponder. Hush. Wait. Each day of Advent, He gives you the gift of time, so you have time to be still and wait. Wait for the coming of the God in the manger who makes Himself bread for us near starved. For the Savior in swaddlin...

Ann Voskamp

The practice of giving thanks...eucharisteo...this is the way we practice the presence of God, stay present to His presence, and it is always a practice of the eyes. We don't have to change what we see. Only the way we see.

Ann Voskamp

Who would ever know the greater graces of comfort and perserverance, mercy and forgiveness, patience and courage, if no shadows fell over a life?

Ann Voskamp

That is what a shadow is, and empty space, a hole in the light. Evil is this - a hole in the goodness of God.

Ann Voskamp

The only way to fight a feeling is with a feeling.

Ann Voskamp

Hurry always empties a soul.

Ann Voskamp

Life-changing gratitude does not fasten to a life unless nailed through with one very specific nail at a time.

Ann Voskamp

Only self can kill joy.

Ann Voskamp

I only live the full life when I live fully in the moment.

Ann Voskamp

Life is so urgent it necessitates living slow.

Ann Voskamp

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

Ann Voskamp

Every moment I live, I live bowed to something. And if I don't see God, I'll bow down before something else.

Ann Voskamp

Author Bio

  • NameAnn Voskamp
  • DescriptionCanadian writer
  • BornAugust 10, 1973
  • ProfessionWriter