Quotes About Mennonites

When the rebels tried to get them to join the army, or pay extra taxes for the war, or at the very least sign a loyalty oath, the Mennonites just said no.

Michiel Kistgens and Jan de Haes, brothers-in-law (and Mennonites), are one example of this dynamic. Among the numbers of Amsterdam merchants whom the Haarlemmer Hans Baert was chasing for payment in June 1637 were Kistgens and De Haes. On January 18 the pair had bought for f 1,25o an Admirael van der Eyck bulb weighing 18o asen. The bulb was at that moment growing in the garden of Jan Woutersz in Haarlem, and, like so many, they seem to have been reluctant to pay for their purchase.

Frankly, I was shocked to hear they allowed KISS to play here. Usually, they have gospel performers in places like this. You know, Varmint, there are other religious communities like this scattered around the country. The Mennonites. The Amish. The Moonies. They would never host a KISS concert. Not in a million years. But times are changing. We could be playing for the Mormons soon. In Salt Lake City.

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

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

We are women without a voice, Ona states calmly. We are women out of time and place, without even the language of the country we reside in. We are Mennonites without a homeland. We have nothing to return to, and even the animals of Molotschna are safer in their homes than we women are. All we women have are our dreams—so of course we are dreamers.

Wealthier Mennonites even though they're not technically supposed to be wealthy do their drinking in North Dakota or Hawaii. They are sort of like rock bands on tour in that the rules of this town don't apply to them when they're on the road. An embarrassing situation for wealthy Mennonites is to meet other wealthy Mennonites at the swim-up bar at the Honolulu Holiday Inn.

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.

La Mariche no es pot reprimir més. Titlla l'Ona de somiadora. Som dones sense veu, puntualitza l'Ona, tranquil·la. Som dones sense temps ni lloc, fins i tot sense la llengua del país on vivim. Som mennonites sense pàtria. No tenim cap lloc on tornar, fins els animals de Molotschna estan més segurs a casa seva que nosaltres, les dones. Totes les dones tenim els nostres somnis… Així que, i tant que som somiadores.

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.

That in East Prussia Frederick William I tolerated the Mennonites as indispensable to industry

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

Nevertheless, they were forbidden to buy land from non-Mennonites, except by special permission of the war ministry, since military obligations were based on land ownership.

Thus, in X75 o King Augustus III noted that Mennonites living in the territories of "Graudenz, Schwetz, Neuenburg, and those who live in other parts of Prussia ... have protested that they have been subjected to injustices, and curtailment of practice of their Mennonite religion."25

Although help and counsel flowed both ways, recipients were not always ready to accept advice. In 1615 several churches in Royal Prussia wrote to Mennonites in the Netherlands and urged them to resolve divisions and disputes among themselves.30 Apparently the Dutch Mennonites were less than enthusiastic about the spiritual counseling received from Royal Prussia;

Confession or Brief, Simple Statement of Faith of Those Who are Called Mennonites in Prussia"35