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

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

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

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

“At the end of the day, when I am lying in bed and I know the chances of any of our theology being exactly right are a million to one, I need to know that God has things figured out, that if my math is wrong we are still going to be okay. And wonder is that feeling we get when we let go of our silly answers, our mapped out rules that we want God to follow. I don't think there is any better worship than wonder.”

“Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns- the ones we don't know we don't know.”

“By accepting God's love for us, we fall in love with Him, and only then do we have the fuel we need to obey.”