Parenting is about preparing children to get along with each other, to get along with you and without you, and that it's impossible to get along without God. Ann Voskamp More Quotes by Ann Voskamp More Quotes From Ann Voskamp Scales always lie. They don't make a scale that ever told the truth about value, about worth, about significance. Ann Voskamp value worth lie truth The real romantics imagine greying and sagging and wrinkling as the deepening of something sacred. Ann Voskamp something sacred imagine real The real romantics are the boring ones - they let another heart bore a hole deep into theirs. Ann Voskamp deep boring real heart I think the fall in Eden was ultimately a failure to give thanks. Ann Voskamp think thanks failure fall I came into this world the way every person on the planet does - with clenched fists. Ann Voskamp planet person way world Whatever I'm writing comes organically out of my life. Ann Voskamp whatever my-life writing life A simplified Christmas isn't about circumstances as much as it is about focus. Ann Voskamp about focus christmas circumstances My husband is Dutch, and his family, when you sat down to eat food at the table, you never left the table until you ate living bread and drank living water. They never left the table until they'd read Scripture together. So morning, lunch, suppertime, Scripture was always read at the table, and then there was prayer to close. Ann Voskamp family food morning water Sometimes God answers our questions with questions. Ann Voskamp questions god answers sometimes When we can't bottle our tears up anymore, God catches every one in His bottle. God's catching every falling tear because He won't let us fall apart. Ann Voskamp falling tears god fall Counting one thousand gifts, I discovered I could count on God. Ann Voskamp gifts count thousand god 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 chapter think creativity god
