Skip to content

Tantalizing if True

Finding our way back home to simplicity, humility, repentance and personal responsibility through prayer and community.

 
  • Home
  • About Us

Category: Martyrs Mirror

Quotations from 16th century Anabaptist martyrs

Oh, what a joyful feast will be prepared for us!

Posted By michael November 3, 2004 under Martyrs Mirror

“Oh, what a joyful feast will be prepared for us before the clock strikes twelve!”

– John Claess, Martyrs Mirror, p. 468-471

I will tell to the world an incredible thing.

Posted By michael November 2, 2004 under Martyrs Mirror

“I will tell to the world an incredible thing: in a dark [prison] hole I have found pleasure; in a place of bitterness and death, rest and hope of salvation.”

– Algerius,Martyrs Mirror, p. 570-573

Join the cast-off little flock.

Posted By michael November 1, 2004 under Martyrs Mirror

“But where you hear of a poor, simple, cast-off little flock, which is despised and rejected by the world, join them.”

– Anna of Rotterdam , Martyrs Mirror p. 453-454

You can take from me no more than my life.

Posted By michael October 31, 2004 under Martyrs Mirror

“You can take from me no more than my life.”

– Offrus Greizinger, Martys Mirror p. 448

Christ has taught us that we should not hear a stranger’s voice.

Posted By michael October 30, 2004 under Martyrs Mirror

“Christ has taught us that we should not hear a stranger’s voice.”

– Jerome Kels, Martyrs Mirror p. 445

The more they increase…

Posted By michael October 29, 2004 under Martyrs Mirror

“What shall I do? the more I cause to be executed, the more they increase.”

– the Burgrave at Altzey, Martyrs Mirror, p. 437

Do you then take such pains to seek souls?

Posted By michael October 28, 2004 under Martyrs Mirror

“Do you then take such pains to seek souls? Well then, go into the city, to every place, to the drunkards, whoremongers, swearers… these are still your brethren; go and seek their souls; Christ has found mine.”

– Hans van Overdam, Martyrs Mirror p. 486-494

I never in all my life was in a holy church.

Posted By michael October 27, 2004 under Martyrs Mirror

“I never in all my life was in a holy church.”

– Fije and Eelken, Martyrs Mirror p. 484-485

Only love to God shall stand.

Posted By michael October 26, 2004 under Martyrs Mirror

“Only love to God shall stand and prevail; not boasting, denouncing, or threatening.”

– Michael Sattler, Martyrs Mirror p. 416

Wake up and give heed.

Posted By michael October 23, 2004 under Martyrs Mirror

“Wake up, and give heed; you certainly see it is not in human power what the Lord enables us to do, that we can leave our dear children, yea, joyfully resign our lives, for the honor of God.”

– Claesken, Martyrs Mirror p. 611-616

Posts navigation

Older posts
Newer posts
ploughing at dusk

Posts

  • Reading is interpreting
  • Having a map, not having arrived
  • More expensive than marble
  • The Josiah Generation
  • I cannot thank and praise the Lord sufficiently.
  • Mind of the Maker
  • Mr. Garrett Goes to Washington
  • Getting to know yourself
  • If God doesn’t exist, he should have told us before now.
  • The Greeting Card Theory of Biblical Authorship
  • What Would Jesus Listen To?
  • Chinese water torture evangelism
  • It bids me fly and gives me wings
  • Defending yourself against God
  • Ruins or foundation?
  • Progress in which direction?
  • Worshipping our worship
  • Stoking the star-maker machinery behind the popular behind
  • Strawberry blond boy
  • Love is like a fire.
  • Except, the anointing oil of James healed the sick…
  • Let me introduce you to my deity.
  • How much will you take for that?
  • Do you like what God is doing?
  • I did not know what to do for joy.

Categories

  • Babylonian Captivity
  • Common Heresies
  • Desperate Suggestions
  • Dry Humor
  • General Overview
  • Incisive Quotes
  • Martyrs Mirror
  • Notes from Cyberspace

Contact

talkback@
homecomers.org

© 2020. A theme by Sampression . Powered by WordPress