Adults are tempted to produce and perform Christmas for their kids and their families, and they arrive at Christmas Day weary and disillusioned.

— Ann Voskamp

A life contemplating the blessings of Christ becomes a life acting the love of Christ.

— Ann Voskamp

All those years thinking I was saved and had said my yes to God, but was really living the no.

— Ann Voskamp

And it's the 'Word of God' that turns the rocks in the mouth to loaves on the tongue. That fills our emptiness with the true and real good, 'that makes the eyes see', the body full of light.

— Ann Voskamp

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

— Ann Voskamp

At the last, this is what will determine a fulfilling, meaningful life, a life that, behind all the facades, every one of us longs to live: gratitude for the blessings that expresses itself by becoming the blessing.

— Ann Voskamp

Awe ignites joy because it makes us bend the knee.

— Ann Voskamp

Being in a hurry. Getting to the next thing without fully entering the thing in front of me. I cannot think of a single advantage I've ever gained from being in a hurry. But a thousand broken and missed things, tens of thousands, lie in the wake of all the rushing.... Through all that haste I thought I was making up time. It turns out I was throwing it away.

— Ann Voskamp

... be radical about grace and relentless about truth and resolute about holiness...

— Ann Voskamp

But, someone, please give me—who is born again but still so much in need of being born anew—give me the details of how to live in the waiting cocoon before the forever begins?

— Ann Voskamp