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
pain giving world
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.
pain something-new born
God only allows pain if He’s allowing something new to be born.
pain heart two
Joy and pain, they are but two arteries of the one heart that pumps through all those who don't numb themselves to really living.
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.
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.