450 Quotes by Ann Voskamp

The family tree of Christ startlingly notes not one woman but four. Four broken women – women who felt like outsiders, like has-beens, like never-beens. Women who were weary of being taken advantage of, of being unnoticed and uncherished and unappreciated; women who didn’t fit in, who didn’t know how to keep going, what to believe, where to go – women who had thought.

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.

A day is a pocket of possibility and it’s always there, waiting for your willing hand.

Sometimes, too often, I don’t want to muster the energy. Stress and anxiety seem easier.

The Word God wastes nothing and He heals two broken hearts with one story – the reader and the writer.

Simplicity is not a matter of circumstance; it is a matter of focus.

Love is not blind; love is the holy vision.

Gratitude’s not a natural posture. The prince of darkness is ultimately a spoiled ingrate, and I’ve spent most of my life as kin to the fist-shaker.

Living radical isn’t about where you live – it’s about how you love.