Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Menno Simons

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Last updated on September 17, 2024.
Menno Simons

Menno Simons was a Roman Catholic priest from the Friesland region of the Low Countries who became an influential Anabaptist religious leader. Simons was a contemporary of the Protestant Reformers and it is from his name that his followers became known as Mennonites.

1496 - January 31, 1561
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.
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.
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
Lord of hosts! When I swim in the merciful waters of your grace I find that I can neither plumb nor measure the depths.
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.
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.
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