Amish Quotes

If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was like to be filled.

~ Jodi Picoult

All was in God's plan, and he had to accept even as he didn't understand.

~ Barbara Cameron

The Amish are islands of sanity in a whirlpool of change.

~ Nancy Sleeth

I respect traditional people - they have the eyes which see value in the tarnished. This is a gift in itself. Tradition requires a wealth of discipline in order to be adhered to, hence it is rarely found in youth.

~ Criss Jami

In your life, the people become like a patchwork quilt. Some leave with you a piece that is bigger than you wanted and others smaller than you thought you needed. Some are that annoying itchy square in the corner, and others that piece of worn flannel. You leave pieces with some and they leave their pieces with you. All the while each and every square makes up a part of what is you. Be okay with the squares people leave you. For life is too short to expect from people what they do not have to give, or were not called to give you.

~ Anna M. Aquino

Southern hospitality and Amish cooking - Ya'll Come Back, Danki.

~ Karen Harper

And this,' Ivan said to the children gathered around, 'is who we are, and this is what we do. Our family serves the Lord--no matter what comes--and when He answers our prayers, no matter how he answers them--we give him praise.

~ Serena B. Miller

It was then that she realized she still had God. He was the only one who hadn't left her. He knew who she was, even if she didn't. A single tear formed in the corner of her eye as she thanked God for not abandoning her - especially when she needed Him most.

~ J.e.b. Spredemann

There is no pressure to perform, to succeed, because we already have. If your family and community accepts you, who else must you impress? Just yourself and God, ja?

~ Sarah Price

Now, as a non-Amish person in the twentieth century who is not a part of the aging and thus noncoveted seventy-five-plus marketing demographic that views things like cell phones and iPads with that quaint, old-people mixture of astonishment, fascination, confusion, and abject fear, I spend as much time pawing my cell phone as members of the postpubescent marketing demographic spend pawing each other and themselves.

~ Bikesnobnyc

Murphy's law inverted: What can go right, will go right. (Works if you're an optimist.)

~ Saloma Miller Furlong

Murphy's law inverted: What can go right, will go right.

~ Saloma Miller Furlong

Thank you for reminding me that the future is in God's hands.' 'You're welcome. And remember, wherever you go, in body and mind, you simply need to call out to God and He is there

~ Tricia Goyer

The society that embraced him continued to prosper by stressing the family unit and their close-knit community. Hers prospered by forcigng independence and self-sufficiency.

~ Sarah Price

The knowing is easy. It's the doing that gives us trouble.

~ Vannetta Chapman

Say what's in your heart, Annie.''You're in my heart, Samuel.

~ Vannetta Chapman

It is easy to find religion; it is salvation most seek. After committing to a life of Christ, salvation is lost in those who stray and do not repent. Those who have not committed cannot stray.

~ Sarah Price

Charlie Everman understood, in the very depth of his soul, that God's mercies were new each morning.

~ Vannetta Chapman

He had never imagined that a man in love could be so lonely.

~ Rosalind Lauer

Fast car . . . You can drive anywhere in just a few minutes and time becomes just another thing we take advantage of never appreciating each moment that passes as a blessing from God.

~ Sarah Price