Quotes from Ann Voskamp

Really good writing, from my perspective, runs a lot like a visual on the screen. You need to create that kind of detail and have credibility with the reader, so the reader knows that you were really there, that you really experienced it, that you know the details. That comes out of seeing.

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.

A simplified Christmas isn't about circumstances as much as it is about focus.

The greatest compliment of the book [One Thousand Gifts]? Maybe the Muslim man in Iraq who was given the book and came to a saving knowledge of Jesus, wanted to live his life in thanks to God?

Parenting is about preparing children to get along with each other, to get along with you and without you, and that it's impossible to get along without God.

There is unwavering peace today when an uncertain tomorrow is trusted to an unchanging God.

Worry is belief gone wrong. Because you don't believe that God will get it right. But peace - peace is belief that exhales. Because you believe that God's provision is everywhere - like air.

How to 'live' in a state of awe when life is mundane and ordinary?

It's habits that can imprison you and it's habits that can free you. But when thanks to God becomes a habit - so joy in God becomes your life.

We give thanks to God not because of how we feel, but because of Who He is.

God's purposes are not for me to understand His plans: His plan is for me to understand Who He is.

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.

Faith thanks God in the middle of the story.

I think God calls us to small things, to faithfulness right where we are, to just do the next thing.

God only allows pain if He's allowing something new to be born.

The answer to deep anxiety is the deep adoration of God.

God reveals Himself in rearview mirrors.

God is good and I am always loved.

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

We want clarity -- and God gives a call. We want a road map --- and God gives a relationship. We want answers -- and God gives His hand.

God gives the world enough of what it needs. All He asks is that we distribute what He gives.

Without God's Word as a lens, the world warps

We're called to do more than believe in God, we're called to live in God.

God's not out to get you - He's out to give to you.