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
ungrateful humanity firsts
Satan's sin becomes the first sin of all humanity: the sin of ingratitude. Adam and Eve are, simply, painfully ungrateful for what God gave.
fall giving firsts
Our fall is always first a failure to give thanks.
earth faces firsts
But wells don't come without first begging to see the wells; wells don't come without first splitting open hard earth, cracking back the lids. There's no seeing God face-to-face without first the ripping.
first-love leftovers firsts
God doesn't want your leftovers. God wants your love overtures, your first-overs, because He is your first love.
doors firsts steps
Sometimes you don’t know when you’re taking the first step through a door until you’re already inside.
empty fast patient writer
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.
bore boring deep heart hole romantics
The real romantics are the boring ones - they let another heart bore a hole deep into theirs.
If I don't have words, it's a sign I'm not reading enough.
I came into this world the way every person on the planet does - with clenched fists.
arrive christmas kids perform produce tempted weary
Adults are tempted to produce and perform Christmas for their kids and their families, and they arrive at Christmas Day weary and disillusioned.
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.
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.
counting discovered god thousand
Counting one thousand gifts, I discovered I could count on God.