Ann Voskamp

"Christ comes right to your Christmas tree and looks at your family tree and says, ‘I am your God, and I am one of you, and I’ll be the Gift, and I’ll take you. Take Me?’"

- Ann Voskamp

"So God throws open the door of this world — and enters as a baby. As the most vulnerable imaginable. Because He wants unimaginable intimacy with you. What religion ever had a god that wanted such intimacy with us that He came with such vulnerability to us? What God ever came so tender we could touch Him? So fragile that we could break Him? So vulnerable that His bare, beating heart could be hurt? Only the One who loves you to death."

- Ann Voskamp

"Practice is the hardest part of learning, and training is the essence of transformation."

- Ann Voskamp

"Every time you fall down, at the bottom of every hole is grace. Grace waits in broken places. Grace waits at the bottom of things. Grace loves you when you are at your darkest worst, and wraps you in the best light. Grace seeps through the broken places and seeps into the lowest places, a balm for wounds."

- Ann Voskamp

"I want a Christmas that whispers ‘Jesus’."

- Ann Voskamp

"Comparison is a thug that robs your joy."

- Ann Voskamp

"God gives God. That is the gift God always ultimately gives. Because nothing is greater and we have no greater need, God gives God. God gives God, and we only need to slow long enough to unwrap the greatest Gift with our time: time in His Word, time in His presence, time at His feet."

- Ann Voskamp

"Eucharisteo—thanksgiving—always precedes the miracle."

- Ann Voskamp

"Satan prowls but he’s a lion on a leash."

- Ann Voskamp