No Amish woman would dare to confide, even in her sister, that a man's very presence made her heart quicken and her senses tingle.

A sign of a hard worker is one who works without complaint. God favors those who toil while others play.

She had received ideas which disposed her to be courteous and kind to all, and to pity every one, as being less happy than herself.

I dreamt -- marvellous error! -- that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making white combs and sweet honey from my old failures.

Everyone has temptations but some folks entertain them . . .Get your eyes off the temptation and onto Christ!

If this is Heaven, I am in big trouble.

The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.

It's not about being a Baptist, Presbyterian, Pentecostal, or 5-Point Calvinist. God has only one family and, as Christians, we're in it!

There's always a nice tune [on radio] - helps you get the dishes done . I like to get the news from time to time - not too often. I don't feel deprived.

Healing is to remind us we are not the experiences of the world.

Fear in the world first created the gods. [Lat., Primus in orbe deos fecit timor.]

Information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time.