Carrie

“Susie paints for the glory of God. “It’s the only way I can do it,” she said. “It all comes from him.” She once read that a Christian can be an artist but never a great artist. “I agree with that. We can’t let a talent God gave us take the place God should have in our life. We can’t let it be an obsession. It always has to be God, first.”
― Suzanne Woods Fisher, Amish Peace: Simple Wisdom for a Complicated World

“If a mother is the heart of the Amish life, the father is the head; he plays a very significant role, spiritually and practically, in his family. Being a hands-on dad is of paramount importance to Amish men. Raising children is not considered women’s work; it is a shared task.”
― Suzanne Woods Fisher, Amish Peace: Simple Wisdom for a Complicated World

“One Amish man joked that if he were meant to plow at night, God would have put a headlight on a horse. The Amish respect natural limitations: sunlight and seasons, hunger and fatigue. Do you accept those limitations, or do you try to override them?”
― Suzanne Woods Fisher, Amish Peace: Simple Wisdom for a Complicated World

“A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't even be worth reading.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We