Quotes About Mennonites

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

Mark Kurlansky

#2. My mother's families were Mennonites or Anabaptists that came to Minnesota from Russia. They were actually moving around Europe doing diking and lowland reclamation work, and they moved into Minnesota.

Phil Jackson

#3. he wore baggy sweatpants, because Mennonites thought it immoral for a man to show his legs.

Juliet Macur

#4. Several congregations had received permission to build churches before Danzig Mennonites were permitted to do so. Thus, in the village of Montau in the vicinity of Kulm, Mennonites were allowed to build their first church in the Vistula valley as early as 1586.8

Peter J. Klassen

#5. He is the same chap who informed me that there are unusually high numbers of Mennonites who suffer from depression but nobody knows why. I said, Well, thank you for that! As cheerfully as if I was accepting a plate of homemade Christmas cookies from one of my students.

Miriam Toews

#6. That in East Prussia Frederick William I tolerated the Mennonites as indispensable to industry,

Max Weber

#7. This huge and terrible industry [the slave trade] was blessed by all churches and for a long time aroused absolutely no religious protest ... In the eighteenth century, a few dissenting Mennonites and Quakers in America began to call for abolition, as did some freethinkers like Thomas Paine.

Christopher Hitchens

#8. Mennonites are very conservative. They don't drink, dance, smoke, go to movies. I grew up in a very conservative faith-based community.

David A.R. White

#9. even a small warren. This one had

Richard Adams

#10. The most powerful way to keep your children from being attracted by the offers of camaraderie from the wicked is to make home an attractive place to be.

Tedd Tripp

#11. So many kids are fat drug addicts these days, it's almost as if Rush Limbaugh had puppies.

Bill Maher

#12. Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth. (said of Mahatma Gandhi)

Albert Einstein

#13. If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.

Miguel De Cervantes