[Referring to the 2006 Pennsylvania slaughter of Amish schoolgirls]
But as far as open anger or hostility goes, the Amish hold, as they have for centuries, that it is destructive - a waste of energy that will hold them hostage and ultimately kill them, just as their daughters were held hostage and killed by someone else's anger. To these devout followers of Jesus, the only answer is the one he offered on the Cross: "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do."
Source: Johann Christoph Arnold - Why Forgive?, pp.210