The best reason for listening to and learning from the poor is that this is one way God is revealed to us.

- Doris Janzen Longacre

The trouble with simple living is that, though it can be joyful, rich, and creative, it isn't simple.

- Doris Janzen Longacre

Time with yourself, with your family, and with your God may prove to be the ultimate saving.

- Doris Janzen Longacre

If it hasn't already done so, the church... must recognize that it lives in a pagan society; it must seek for values and norms not shared by society.…

- Doris Janzen Longacre

Now and then, living more with less means paying more money. It may mean buying better quality - leaving behind repetitive purchases of discount junk…

- Doris Janzen Longacre

Medical experts now estimate that 80 percent of diseases are directly linked to frantic living.

- Doris Janzen Longacre

There are two ways to be rich: 1. Acquire great wealth 2. Acquire few needs.

- Doris Janzen Longacre

Five Life Standards of Voluntary Simplicity Do Justice Learn from the World Community Nurture People Cherish the Natural Order Non-Conform …

- Doris Janzen Longacre

We become victims of the great disease of technological society - meaninglessness.

- Doris Janzen Longacre