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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.

~Ann Voskamp

Topics: Against Anyone Beaten Else Just Life Measure Own Pick Picked Soul Stick Up Yardstick You Your

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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.

~Ann Voskamp

Topics: Darkness Gratitude Kin Life Most My Life Natural Posture Prince Spent Spoiled Ultimately

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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

Topics: Adult Arrive Christmas Day Disillusioned Families Kids Perform Produce Tempted Weary

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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.

~Ann Voskamp

Topics: All The World Canyon Giving God Goodness Making Pain Proclaim Satan Sneer Thanks Ultimate Us World Would

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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.

~Ann Voskamp

Topics: Down Get Him His How Kids Lay Life Makes Man Proposes Purposes Romantic

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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.

~Ann Voskamp

Topics: Better Big Measuring Only People Rank Sizes Small Some Some People Souls Sticks Try Worse

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

~Ann Voskamp

Topics: About Always Ever Lie Make Scale Scales Significance Truth Value Worth

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

~Ann Voskamp

Topics: Eden Failure Fall Give Thanks Think Ultimately I Think

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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.

~Ann Voskamp

Topics: Bestowed Chapter Creativity Edit God High Mine Then Think Within Write I Write

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

~Ann Voskamp

Topics: Life My Life Organically Out Whatever Writing

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Author

Born: August 10th, 1973

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