450 Quotes by Ann Voskamp

There is a way to live the big of giving thanks in all things. It is this: to give thanks in this one small thing. The moments will add up.

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

I don't want a Christmas you can buy. I don't want a Christmas you can make. What I want is a Christmas you can hold. A Christmas that holds me, remakes me, revives me. I want a Christmas that whispers, Jesus.

Being joyful isn't what makes you grateful. Being grateful is what makes you joyful.

Real Womanhood isn’t a function of becoming a great mother, but of being loved by your Great Father.

You can give up the need to compete in the world- when you accept being complete in Christ.

Faith thanks God in the middle of the story.

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.

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.