“Unlike many of their consumer-minded neighbors, the Amish do not assemble their spirituality piecemeal by personal preference.”

“We believe in letting our light shine, but not shining it in the eyes of other people.”

“We don't pray for rain. We wait for rain, and when it comes, we thank God for it.”

“When we do what God wants us to do, we are blessed, we are spiritually healthy.”

“I do not believe a person can take two issues from Scripture, those being abortion and gay marriage, and adhere to them as sins, then neglect much of the rest and call himself a fundamentalist or even a conservative. The person who believes the sum of his morality involves gay marriage and abortion alone, and neglects health care and world trade and the environment and loving his neighbor and feeding the poor is, by definition, a theological liberal, because he takes what he wants from Scripture and ignores the rest.”

“Could we ever switch to this or any of the many other rational systems? Unlikely: tradition is difficult to overcome.”

“the successful person is the individual who forms the habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.”