450 Quotes by Ann Voskamp

I think the fall in Eden was ultimately a failure to give thanks.

Pick up a yardstick to measure your life against anyone else's, and you've just picked up a stick and beaten up your own soul.

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.

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.

Scales always lie. They don't make a scale that ever told the truth about value, about worth, about significance.

Counting one thousand gifts, I discovered I could count on God.

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

Whatever I'm writing comes organically out of my life.

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.