"Adults are tempted to produce and perform Christmas……" — Ann Voskamp
"Adults are tempted to produce and perform Christmas for their kids and their families, and they arrive at Christmas Day weary and disillusioned."
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171 Quotes by Ann Voskamp
Ann Voskamp has 171 quotes on this site.
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Joy is always a function of gratitude - and gratitude is always a function of perspective.
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We were made to live in a posture of grateful worship, and when we live in praise we live our…
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There is a way to live the big of giving thanks in all things. It is this: to give thanks…
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God doesn't want your leftovers. God wants your love overtures, your first-overs, because He is your first love.
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Like the wind, Grace finds us wherever we are and won't leave us however we were found.
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The bravest love is wildly faithful and it falls hard again every morning... It knows what we seek may be…
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I have to seek God beauty. Because isn't my internal circuitry wired to seek out something worthy of worship? .…
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The gift list is thinking upon His goodness – and this, this pleases Him most! And most profits my own…
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I glance back in the mirror to the concrete bridge, the one I've boldly driven straight across without second thought,…
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Satan's sin becomes the first sin of all humanity: the sin of ingratitude. Adam and Eve are, simply, painfully ungrateful…
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In counting gifts, to one thousand, more, I discover that slapping a sloppy brush of thanksgiving over everything in my…
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Thanksgiving creates abundance; and the miracle of multiplying happens when I give thanks-take the just one loaf, say it is…
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Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
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There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the…
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times.
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Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young.
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Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise…
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An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.
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