... be radical about grace and relentless about truth and resolute about holiness...
ANN VOSKAMP I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, in all the days befo...
ANN VOSKAMP Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus.
ANN VOSKAMP I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give...
ANN VOSKAMP The brave who focus on all things good and all things beautiful and all things true, even in the sma...
ANN VOSKAMP Adults are tempted to produce and perform Christmas for their kids and their families, and they arri...
ANN VOSKAMP Sometimes God answers our questions with questions.
ANN VOSKAMP I think the fall in Eden was ultimately a failure to give thanks.
ANN VOSKAMP Get this, kids - how a man proposes isn't what makes him romantic. It's how a man purposes t...
ANN VOSKAMP A simplified Christmas isn't about circumstances as much as it is about focus.
ANN VOSKAMP I'm not a fast writer at all. I come empty and wait upon the Lord. So it really is all a waiting...
ANN VOSKAMP The real romantics imagine greying and sagging and wrinkling as the deepening of something sacred.
ANN VOSKAMP Whatever I'm writing comes organically out of my life.
ANN VOSKAMP I write a chapter, then edit it and edit it and edit it and edit it. I don't think we mine creat...
ANN VOSKAMP Gratitude's not a natural posture. The prince of darkness is ultimately a spoiled ingrate, and I...
ANN VOSKAMP My husband is Dutch, and his family, when you sat down to eat food at the table, you never left the ...
ANN VOSKAMP Counting one thousand gifts, I discovered I could count on God.
ANN VOSKAMP I came into this world the way every person on the planet does - with clenched fists.
ANN VOSKAMP Scales always lie. They don't make a scale that ever told the truth about value, about worth, ab...
ANN VOSKAMP When we can't bottle our tears up anymore, God catches every one in His bottle. God's catchi...
ANN VOSKAMP Romance isn't measured by how viral your proposal goes. The Internet age may try to sell you som...
ANN VOSKAMP Really good writing, from my perspective, runs a lot like a visual on the screen. You need to create...
ANN VOSKAMP Giving thanks is that: making the canyon of pain into a megaphone to proclaim the ultimate goodness ...
ANN VOSKAMP Measuring sticks try to rank some people as big and some people as small - but we aren't sizes. ...
ANN VOSKAMP Comparison is a thug that robs your joy. But it's even more than that - Comparison makes you a t...
ANN VOSKAMP In a storm of struggles, I have tried to control the elements, clasp the fist tight so as to protect...
ANN VOSKAMP When grief is deepest, words are fewest.
ANN VOSKAMP When I fully enter time’s swift current, enter into the current moment with the weight of all my a...
ANN VOSKAMP By default, most of us have taken the dare to simply survive. Exist. Get through. For the most part,...
ANN VOSKAMP Pick up a yardstick to measure your life against anyone else's, and you've just picked up a ...
ANN VOSKAMP And when I give thanks for the seemingly microscopic, I make a place for God to grow within me.
ANN VOSKAMP In our rushing, bulls in china shops, we break our own lives.
ANN VOSKAMP In a world addicted to speed, I blur the moments into one unholy smear.
ANN VOSKAMP Sometimes you don’t know when you’re taking the first step through a door until you’re already...
ANN VOSKAMP I hunger for filling in a world that is starved.
ANN VOSKAMP From all of our beginnings, we keep reliving the Garden story.
ANN VOSKAMP On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgement and effort to get thin...
ANN VOSKAMP They say time is money, but that's not true. Time is life. And if I want the fullest life, I need to...
ANN VOSKAMP As long as thanks is possible, then joy is always possible.
ANN VOSKAMP ...life change comes when we receive life with thanks and ask for nothing to change.
ANN VOSKAMP A life contemplating the blessings of Christ becomes a life acting the love of Christ.
ANN VOSKAMP Satan prowls but he’s a lion on a leash
ANN VOSKAMP Practice is the hardest part of learning, and training is the essence of transformation.
ANN VOSKAMP Gratitude for the seemingly insignificant—a seed—this plants the giant miracle.
ANN VOSKAMP The parent must always self-parent first, self-preach before child-teach, because who can bring peac...
ANN VOSKAMP This day is not a sieve, losing time. With each passing minute, each passing year, there's this deep...
ANN VOSKAMP I don't really want more time; I just want enough time. Time to breathe deep and time to see real an...
ANN VOSKAMP How my eyes see, perspective, is my key to enter into His gates. I can only do so with thanksgiving....
ANN VOSKAMP Lament is a cry of belief in a good God, a God who has His ear to our hearts, a God who transfigures...
ANN VOSKAMP Stress isn't only a joy stealer. The way we respond to it can be sin.
ANN VOSKAMP ...the secret to joy is to keep seeking God where we doubt He is.
ANN VOSKAMP But, someone, please give me—who is born again but still so much in need of being born anew—give...
ANN VOSKAMP He does have surprising, secret purposes. I open a Bible, and His plans, startling, lie there barefa...
ANN VOSKAMP Eucharisteo—thanksgiving—always precedes the miracle.
ANN VOSKAMP Just that maybe … maybe you don’t want to change the story, because you don’t know what a diff...
ANN VOSKAMP It is in the dark that God is passing by. The bridge and our lives shake not because God has abandon...
ANN VOSKAMP The practice of giving thanks...eucharisteo...this is the way we practice the presence of God, stay ...
ANN VOSKAMP When we lay the soil of our hard lives open to the rain of grace and let joy penetrate our cracked a...
ANN VOSKAMP That which tears open our souls, those holes that splatter our sight, may actually become the thin, ...
ANN VOSKAMP Joy is the realest reality, the fullest life, and joy is always given, never grasped. God gives gift...
ANN VOSKAMP Being in a hurry. Getting to the next thing without fully entering the thing in front of me. I canno...
ANN VOSKAMP Our fall was, has always been, and always will be, that we aren’t satisfied in God and what He giv...
ANN VOSKAMP Losses do that. One life-loss can infect the whole of a life. Like a rash that wears through our day...
ANN VOSKAMP Is the height of my chara joy dependent on the depths of my eucharisteo thanks?
ANN VOSKAMP I know the theological answers, but do my blood and my pulse?
ANN VOSKAMP The real romantics are the boring ones - they let another heart bore a hole deep into theirs.
ANN VOSKAMP I know there is poor and hideous suffering, and I've seen the hungry and the guns that go to war. I ...
ANN VOSKAMP Humbly let go. Let go of trying to do, let go of trying to control, let go of my own way, let go of ...
ANN VOSKAMP The whole of the life -- even the hard -- is made up of the minute parts, and if I miss the infinite...
ANN VOSKAMP Thanksgiving-giving thanks in everything-prepares the way that God might show us His fullest salvati...
ANN VOSKAMP Jesus embraced His not enough ... He gives thanks ... and there is more than enough. More than enoug...
ANN VOSKAMP When we lay the soil of our hard lives opened the rain of grace and let Joy permeate our cracked and...
ANN VOSKAMP Even Obama's staunchest supporters are starting to leave him. Last week Michelle Obama demanded ...
ANN COULTER Know when to tune out, if you listen to too much advice you may wind up making other peoples mistake...
ANN LANDERS Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
ANN LANDERS Class never tries to build itself up by tearing others down. Class is already up and need not strive...
ANN LANDERS Class is considerate of others. It knows that good manners is nothing more than a series of petty sa...
ANN LANDERS People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.
ANN LANDERS The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.
ANN LANDERS One out of four people in this country is mentally unbalanced. Think of your three closes friends; i...
ANN LANDERS Class can 'walk with kings and keep its virtue and talk with crowds and keep the common touch.&#...
ANN LANDERS People who care about each other enjoy doing things for one another. They don't consider it serv...
ANN LANDERS If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don&#...
ANN LANDERS I don't believe that you have to be a cow to know what milk is.
ANN LANDERS The Lord gave us two ends - one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one ...
ANN LANDERS All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good...
ANN LANDERS Too many people today know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
ANN LANDERS I don't think most people are all heroic or all villainous, so I find ambiguity of motivations t...
ANN NOCENTI You need that guy like a giraffe needs strep throat.
ANN LANDERS I'm a little bit more unusual so I consider myself as the black sheep.
ANN WILSON Maybe, sometimes, it's easier to be mad at the people you trust because you know they'll always love...
ANN BRASHARES We all have burdens and we need to learn to carry each other's burdens, lighten each other's...
ANN ROMNEY You can't fool yourself anymore that your art is your art. When you're not getting paid for ...
ANN POWERS If Donald Trump's candidacy has proven anything, it's that the media has no idea what Americ...
ANN COULTER If I were a 40-year-old woman, 40-to-50, I'd want to be getting my mammograms. They catch cancer...
ANN ROMNEY Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
ANN LANDERS The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
ANN LANDERS I often feel that I have a split personality. I love more than anything to be in my study writing, b...
ANN HOOD All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good...
ANN LANDERS There can be life after breast cancer. The prerequisite is early detection.
ANN JILLIAN If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love eva...
ANN OAKLEY Where there's smoke around a conservative, there are journalists furiously rubbing two sticks togeth...
ANN COULTER We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares...
ANN LANDERS After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high...
ANN RICHARDS Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are ...
ANN LANDERS Different people were good at different things, Lena mused. Lena was good at writing thank-you notes...
ANN BRASHARES You thought you had the choice to stay still or move forward, but your didn't. As long as your heart...
ANN BRASHARES Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolut...
ANN LANDERS Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend y...
ANN PATCHETT I believe in recovery, and as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that y...
ANN RICHARDS It takes a fearless, unflinching love and deep humility to accept the universe as it is. The most ef...
ANN DRUYAN Mother Mary of Anabolic Grace, we got Teras incoming?” He levels angry blue eyes on me. “You’r...
ANN AGUIRRE The ocean was the best place, of course. That was what she loved most. It was a feeling of freedom l...
ANN BRASHARES There are always women who will take men on their own terms. If I were a man I wouldn't bother to ch...
ANN OAKLEY Men are the enemies of women. Promising sublime intimacy, unequalled passion, amazing security and g...
ANN OAKLEY Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
ANN LANDERS I have always had the feeling I could do anything and my dad told me I could. I was in college befor...
ANN RICHARDS If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity, it wo...
ANN LANDERS Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
ANN LANDERS Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of ...
ANN OAKLEY Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.
ANN LANDERS No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence.
ANN LANDERS Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with ...
ANN LANDERS What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, st...
ANN LANDERS The real question is why are millions of people so unhappy, so bored, so unfulfilled, that they are ...
ANN LANDERS Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty.
ANN OAKLEY One out of four people in this country is mentally imbalanced. Think of your three closest friends. ...
ANN LANDERS At every party there are two kinds of people -- those who want to go home and those who don't. The t...
ANN LANDERS The primary function of myth is to validate an existing social order. Myth enshrines conservative so...
ANN OAKLEY Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.
ANN OAKLEY Bragging is not an attractive trait, but let's be honest. A man who catches a big fish doesn't go ho...
ANN LANDERS Let us keep Christmas beautiful Without a thought of greed, That it might live forevermore To fill o...
ANN SCHULTZ It seems to me that the problem with diaries, and the reason that most of them are so boring, is tha...
ANN BEATTIE If you marry a man who cheats on his wife, you'll be married to a man who cheats on his wife.
ANN LANDERS Bragging is not an attractive trait, but let's be honest. A man who catches a big fish doesn't go h...
ANN LANDERS Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with ...
ANN LANDERS Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.
ANN LANDERS The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.
ANN LANDERS When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the f...
ANN RADCLIFFE When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.
ANN RADCLIFFE It is dismal coming home, when there is nobody to welcome one!
ANN RADCLIFFE There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not e...
ANN RADCLIFFE Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each o...
ANN RADCLIFFE All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good...
ANN LANDERS What has a man's face to do with his character? Can a man of good character help having a disagreeab...
ANN RADCLIFFE There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.
ANN RADCLIFFE What are riches - grandeur - health itself, to the luxury of a pure conscience, the health of the so...
ANN RADCLIFFE Though the vicious can sometimes pour affliction upon the good, their power is transient and their p...
ANN RADCLIFFE The refreshing pleasure from the first view of nature, after the pain of illness, and the confinemen...
ANN RADCLIFFE Employment is the surest antidote to sorrow.
ANN RADCLIFFE I tasted too what was called the sweet of revenge - but it was transient, it expired even with the o...
ANN RADCLIFFE Through the eight books in 'The Treasure Chest' series, readers will meet twins Maisie and F...
ANN HOOD In my adult life, I had spent a lot of time angry at God, mostly over the sudden deaths in my family...
ANN HOOD Admittedly, no Republican can get elected statewide in California anymore, but nor can what we think...
ANN COULTER Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonder...
ANN LANDERS I think in the immediate days after 9/11, the administration acted very, very well. I liked the deci...
ANN RICHARDS I'm accusing Republicans of thinking the Jews have so much power.
ANN COULTER If a university official's letter accusing a speaker of having a proclivity to commit speech cri...
ANN COULTER We were a family that made our Halloween costumes. Or, more accurately, my mother made them. She too...
ANN HOOD The distinction has blurred between young adult and adult books. Some of the teen books have become ...
ANN BRASHARES Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
ANN LANDERS I don't mind being a tourist at all, and a gawker. I just walk around.
ANN ROBINSON There was a Japantown in San Francisco, but after the internment camps that locked up all the Japane...
ANN NOCENTI If only we could get Muslims to boycott all airlines, we could dispense with airport security altoge...
ANN COULTER Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career...
ANN OAKLEY Key to success for the education of young African girls is building a model that works with communit...
ANN COTTON Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of ...
ANN LANDERS Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.
ANN LANDERS Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of al...
ANN LANDERS I have learned that there is more power in a good strong hug than in a thousand meaningful words.
ANN HOOD On the campaign, I've had the privilege of advocating for important issues that affect all women...
ANN CALLIS Multiple Sclerosis is obviously close to my heart and I'm determined to make a difference in the...
ANN ROMNEY I advise keeping four feet on the floor and all hands on deck.
ANN LANDERS Any Republican who says he can work with Hillary Clinton is a traitor to the nation.
ANN COULTER Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without hav...
ANN LANDERS I just feel like I'm a very lucky person to have a new life outside of politics.
ANN RICHARDS Be greedy for social change, and your life will be endlessly enriched. The only failure lies in not ...
ANN COTTON And I cannot tell you how much I appreciate that because the days are long, the road is hard, the tr...
ANN ROMNEY Sometimes when I'm watching television and something, an image, will come on that has to do with...
ANN RICHARDS 'Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell' by Susanna Clarke is a big, thick book. About a thousan...
ANN LECKIE I've been in this business for a long time, and I no longer think that anything that I do by way...
ANN BEATTIE Katana is a trained, disciplined martial artist. She removes herself from Birds of Prey to go on a p...
ANN NOCENTI You didn't have to go on location if you could just shoot down City Hall, LA.
ANN ROBINSON We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren'...
ANN COULTER Liberals are stalwart defenders of civil liberties - provided we're only talking about criminals...
ANN COULTER I have leveled with the girls - from Anchorage to Amarillo.
I tell them that all marriages are ...
ANN LANDERS What liberals mean by 'goose-stepping' or 'ethnic cleansing' is generally something ...
ANN COULTER Occasionally, I hear grumbles about everything being a series or a trilogy, but apart from the quest...
ANN LECKIE For love to flourish there has to be trust. Promises don’t matter as much as
personal choice.
ANN AGUIRRE Lena wished that love were something you could flip on and off. You could turn it on when you felt g...
ANN BRASHARES Build into each budget the cost of hiring and don't lump yourself with capital investment.
ANN MACBETH I know for certain people I'm championing a struggle that they're going through.
ANN ROMNEY Shetland's influences are far more Scandinavian than Celtic.
ANN CLEEVES The critics had an image of me, and they wouldn't accept any other... I was a cartoon character....
ANN-MARGRET Four years of Jimmy Carter gave us two titanic Reagan landslides, peace and prosperity for eight ble...
ANN COULTER Black is not sad. Bright colors are what depresses me. They’re so… empty. Black is poetic. How d...
ANN DEMEULEMEESTER The exclusion of girls from education is an issue of justice. But it's also an issue of economic...
ANN COTTON It is in this spirit of community that we have decided to forego this traditional celebration at thi...
ANN SNYDER A very special thanks to all these organizations. They quickly responded to a sudden and pressing ne...
ANN SNYDER Under the extraordinary leadership of Carol Mitchener, all of our staff members have banded together...
ANN SNYDER