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, Plain Truth

“The knowing is easy. It's the doing that gives us trouble.”
― Vannetta Chapman, A Simple Amish Christmas

“Happiness isn't wanting what you can get, but wanting what you have.”
― Beverly Lewis, The Judgment

“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, Healology

“All was in God's plan, and he had to accept even as he didn't understand.”
― Barbara Cameron, A Time to Love

“Say what's in your heart, Annie.'
'You're in my heart, Samuel.”
― Vannetta Chapman, A Simple Amish Christmas

“The Amish are islands of sanity in a whirlpool of change.”
― Nancy Sleeth, Almost Amish

“What I see here, what I feel here is that people in your world believe spirituality isn't distant. It's close and real. Religion seems born in the home, stays in the home. I mean, the services are even held in the home. And there's not one person in charge, one speaker set above the others. It's farmers and carpenters, and well, just average folk speaking spontaneously about the message they find in the Bible. [...] A message from the heart to the heart.”
― Barbara Cameron, A Time to Love

“Silas stared at the miniature marshmallows floating like hard pebbles on the surface of the hot chocolate, apparently undisturbed by the heat that was slowly softening them.”
― Laura V. Hilton, The Amish Wanderer

“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

“The most splendid thing about the Amish is the names they give their towns. Everywhere else in America towns are named either after the first white person to get there or the last Indian to leave. But the Amish obviously gave the matter of town names some thought and graced their communities with intriguing, not to say provocative, appellations: Blue Ball, Bird in Hand, and Intercourse, to name but three. Intercourse makes a good living by attracting passers-by such as me who think it the height of hilarity to send their friends and colleagues postcards with an Intercourse postal mark and some droll sentiment scribbled on the back.”
― Bill Bryson, The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America

“A mental choice, absent a real heart change, is no choice at all. We couldn’t force ourselves to be something we were not. That just couldn’t happen. And it didn’t.”
― Ira Wagler, Growing Up Amish

“Charlie Everman understood, in the very depth of his soul, that God's mercies were new each morning.”
― Vannetta Chapman, Joshua's Mission

“We crossed the Mississippi and on to Illinois. At Starved Rock, 100 miles south of Chicago, we followed 40 or 50 bikers with ‘Bikers against Child Abuse’ as their colours. Next was Indiana, with foggy river towns and vast farmlands, Amish homes in Ohio with smoke curling from the chimneys, then 43 miles of unbroken forests and prime trout-water rivers in West Virginia. We stayed overnight and ate fresh game pie, although whether we were eating possum, rabbit or raccoon we never discovered.”
― Karl Wiggins, Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe

“Murphy's law inverted: What can go right, will go right. (Works if you're an optimist.)”
― Saloma Miller Furlong

“Even among the Amish, other Amish seem odd.”
― Ira Wagler, Growing Up Amish

“Murphy's law inverted: What can go right, will go right.”
― Saloma Miller Furlong, Why I Left the Amish

“We can’t change the past, but we can change how we spend the rest of our days on this earth.”
― Samantha Bayarr

“He had never imagined that a man in love could be so lonely.”
― Rosalind Lauer, A Simple Autumn

“You are speaking of something sacred, something holy. Love is patient and kind. It does not envy or boast. It casts out pride, selfishness and anger. It keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres and never fails.”
― Carol Devine, A Man of the Land

“We may not have computers or telephones or television, but we have books and conversations. And we talk to each other in person, not through e-mails and texts.”
― Nancy Grossman, A World Away

“As the urban world becomes more hazardous, stressful, and complex, there are those who will be attracted to a simpler way of life.”
― John A. Hostetler, Amish Society

“The box of Amish life and culture might provide some protection, but it could never bring salvation.”
― Ira Wagler, Growing Up Amish

“Death is believed to be inauspicious in some foreign lands west to us; to them it signifies the end of everything. But nothing never really dies. No material can ever truly escape the universe. It just changes form. In that sense, death is actually also the beginning of regeneration; the old form dies and a new form is born. If the south is the direction of death, then it is also the direction of regeneration.”
― Amish Tripathi, Scion of Ikshvaku

“Amish are basically disgruntled Catholics. - Plain Rainbows: LGBTQ Amish and Anabaptist Stories podcast”
― James Schwartz

“Amish are basically disgruntled Catholics.”
― James Schwartz

“She gave out advice like Amish Kettle Corn.”
― Amanda Flower, Lemon Drop Dead

“What the Englisch referred to as nature, like it was all happenstance, Jesus knew only as creation, a work of God. Even better, the Bible described the entire cosmos as a temple, full of the glory of God. An unending outdoor cathedral.”
― Suzanne Woods Fisher, Lost and Found

“I'm not a poet, Miriam.
But if I were, I'd write on a red heart
Words to describe my love for you.
You are the reason Gotte brought us to live
Here among these rich valleys and hills.
Will you share our life?
Will you be my bride?
I can offer you days filled with Geace
And nights of love and peace.
If you share my love,
Marry me and share our humble home,
Along the banks of Pebble Creek.”
― Vannetta Chapman

“Gay Amish people have been excluded from the very start of the Anabaptist movement. We are still oppressed and shunned today. America is quick to laud the Amish for their lifestyle but remains silent on their homophobia. Amish practice shunning which is forced family separation and conversion therapy which is illegal.
The harm caused by the church has led to LGBTQ Amish suicide and physical, emotional and spiritual abuse.
The Amish communities place a great emphasis on their ancestors who were martyred yet today persecute their LGBTQ minority.”
― James Schwartz