#amish

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

— Nancy Sleeth

#change #sanity #simplicity #stability #tradition

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

— Barbara Cameron

#faith #god #faith

If she had learned one thing from Rebecca it was that demonstrations of affection or even emotion were few and far between when it came to the Amish way of life. ↗

— Sarah Price

#love #faith

A very smart woman once asked me, 'Do you think money is the answer to everything?' I have a family issue and I'm going home. ↗

— Cindy Woodsmall

#christian-fiction #family

Amish children are usually named after aunts or uncles or some other relation. Keeps the family names going. ↗

— Sarah Price

#namesake #family

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

#community #family #family

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

#character #impress #family

When nothing worked, he decided the least he could do was pick the yam bits out of his beard. But even the proved fruitless since the bits seemed to find their way into the deepest recesses of the beard, and the just small enough boy quickly grew squeamish. Judge if you must, but if you've ever had to pick yam bits out of an old man's bushy beard, I'm sure you'd forgive him. ↗

— Jason Carter Eaton

#facttracker #forgive #judge #squeamish #yam

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

— Karen Harper

#christian #humor #southern #home

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

— Saloma Miller Furlong

#coming-of-age #escape-from-the-amish #inspirational #memoir #age