Menno Simons Quotes

#1. Mennonites are so called because they followed Menno Simons, a sixteenth-century Dutch Catholic priest

Mark Kurlansky

#2. Lord of hosts! When I swim in the merciful waters of your grace I find that I can neither plumb nor measure the depths.

Menno Simons

#3. If you can't be a hero, you can at least be funny while being a chicken.

Ina May Gaskin

#4. Why charge we Heav'n in those, in these acquit?
In both, to reason right is to submit.

Alexander Pope

#5. United thoughts and counsels, equal hope And hazard in the glorious enterprise.

John Milton

#6. We who were formerly no people at all, and who knew of no peace, are now called to be ... a church ... of peace. True Christians do not know vengeance. They are the children of peace. Their hearts overflow with peace. Their mouths speak peace, and they walk in the way of peace.

Menno Simons

#7. It is fatally easy to think of Christianity as something to be discussed and not as something to be experienced.

William Barclay

#8. True evangelical faith, cannot lie dormant, it clothes the naked, it feeds the hungry, it comforts the sorrowful, it shelters the destitute, it serves those that harm it, it binds up that which is wounded, it has become all things to all creatures.

Menno Simons

#9. The regenerated do not go to war, nor engage in strife. They are children of peace who have beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning forks, and know no war.

Menno Simons

#10. Baby, bein' seriously serious, you are the only thing in four years that has come close to getting me to a place where I can even begin to think I might be able to bear those flames.

Kristen Ashley

#11. If you have a strong sense of who you are and what you're doing, then it's actually easier to work with other people, because you don't have to worry about them or yourself. You're just worrying about getting the best product, and all that other stuff is out of the way.

Eliza Coupe

#12. Union with [True] Knowledge is 'Principle' [Established Truth] and union with the three [mind, speech and body] is 'non principle' [absence of principle].

Dada Bhagwan

#13. Some of the lowest-paid workers in this nation are people that we ask to watch the next generation of Americans. We do a better job insisting that your pets are cared for in this country than your children are, and there ought to be a sense of outrage about that.

Christopher Dodd

#14. I can neither teach nor live by the faith of others. I must live by my own faith as the Spirit of the Lord has taught me through His Word.

Menno Simons

#15. Emotional truths can sometimes be conveyed more effectively, more compellingly, through fiction.

Diana Ossana

#16. Bay nodded. "I guess he's not going to know if I don't really say what's on my mind." Mel's eyes danced with laughter. "I think that's the thing with most men and women. They need to be told.

Carrie Ann Ryan