{"quotes":[{"text":"One of the greatest gifts in this world is the ability to make others smile. - The Unauthorized Autobiography of Jonathan Fisher.","author":"J.E.B. Spredemann","tags":["ability","amish","friendliness","gifts","happiness","jokes","joking","jonathan-fisher","smile","smiling"],"id":3566,"author_id":"J.E.B.+Spredemann"},{"text":"Now, as a non-Amish person in the twentieth century who is not a part of the aging and thus noncoveted seventy-five-plus marketing demographic that views things like cell phones and iPads with that quaint, old-people mixture of astonishment, fascination, confusion, and abject fear, I spend as much time pawing my cell phone as members of the postpubescent marketing demographic spend pawing each other and themselves.","author":"BikeSnobNYC","tags":["amish","humor","technology"],"id":6681,"author_id":"BikeSnobNYC"},{"text":"The Amish are islands of sanity in a whirlpool of change.","author":"Nancy Sleeth","tags":["amish","change","sanity","simplicity","stability","tradition"],"id":23234,"author_id":"Nancy+Sleeth"},{"text":"I respect traditional people - they have the eyes which see value in the tarnished. This is a gift in itself. Tradition requires a wealth of discipline in order to be adhered to, hence it is rarely found in youth.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["age","amish","ancestors","chronological-snobbery","conservative","culture","discipline","elderly","eyes","gift","immaturity","intelligence","knowledge","liberal","maturity","mennonites","old","old-age","past","respect","tarnished","tradition","value","wealth","wisdom","youth"],"id":55830,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"It was then that she realized she still had God. He was the only one who hadn't left her. He knew who she was, even if she didn't. A single tear formed in the corner of her eye as she thanked God for not abandoning her - especially when she needed Him most.","author":"J.E.B. Spredemann","tags":["abandonment","alone","aloneness","amish","amish-by-accident","amish-fiction","amnesia","believe","christianity","comfort","faith","god","hope","hopelessness","need","nobody","security","spredemann","tears","trust"],"id":81627,"author_id":"J.E.B.+Spredemann"},{"text":"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?","author":"Sarah Price","tags":["amish","character","impress"],"id":119499,"author_id":"Sarah+Price"},{"text":"And this,' Ivan said to the children gathered around, 'is who we are, and this is what we do. Our family serves the Lord--no matter what comes--and when He answers our prayers, no matter how he answers them--we give him praise.","author":"Serena B. Miller","tags":["amish","christian","family","prayer"],"id":121026,"author_id":"Serena+B.+Miller"},{"text":"Say what's in your heart, Annie.''You're in my heart, Samuel.","author":"Vannetta Chapman","tags":["amish","christmas","love"],"id":139990,"author_id":"Vannetta+Chapman"},{"text":"Murphy's law inverted: What can go right, will go right.","author":"Saloma Miller Furlong","tags":["amish","coming-of-age","escape-from-the-amish","inspirational","memoir"],"id":175667,"author_id":"Saloma+Miller+Furlong"},{"text":"Fast car . . . You can drive anywhere in just a few minutes and time becomes just another thing we take advantage of never appreciating each moment that passes as a blessing from God.","author":"Sarah Price","tags":["amish","time-management","time-passing"],"id":215858,"author_id":"Sarah+Price"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":21,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}