The Anabaptist Story Quotes

“If the Anabaptists teach us anything, it is that those who fear freedom and court the governments of this world in the interest of a more moral or "Christian" state are placing their faith in a broken reed. For the Anabaptists, there is only one way, the way of the cross, for the church to become "salt, light, and leaven" in any society and in every age.”
― William R. Estep, The Anabaptist Story: An Introduction to Sixteenth-Century Anabaptism

“True believing Christians are sheep among wolves, sheep for the slaughter. They must be baptized in anxiety, distress, affliction, persecution, suffering, and death.”
― William Roscoe Estep, The Anabaptist Story: An Introduction to Sixteenth-Century Anabaptism

“But when the Lord comes in glory to judgment, then will the sinner repent; it is then too late to acquire forgiveness; he here publishes his divine word, and teaches men that they shall forsake their sinful lives, believe in Christ, be baptized on faith, and render obedience to the gospel. Therefore, sons of men," he pleads, "forsake your sins, and continue no longer in your hardness, sickness, blindness and ungodliness, when you can have a physican [sic] who can heal all your infirmities, and who will afford his services gratis (Matt. ix. 12).,148”
― William Roscoe Estep, The Anabaptist Story: An Introduction to Sixteenth-Century Anabaptism

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“But when the Lord comes in glory to judgment, then will the sinner repent; it is then too late to acquire forgiveness; he here publishes his divine word, and teaches men that they shall forsake their sinful lives, believe in Christ, be baptized on faith, and render obedience to the gospel. Therefore, sons of men," he pleads, "forsake your sins, and continue no longer in your hardness, sickness, blindness and ungodliness, when you can have a physican [sic] who can heal all your infirmities, and who will afford his services gratis (Matt. ix. 12).,148”
― William Roscoe Estep, The Anabaptist Story: An Introduction to Sixteenth-Century Anabaptism

“We are accused also of condemning all who are not of our mind and who act not as we do. That we deny. We condemn no man, but we show to men their reprobate life and warn them of condemnation, and this we do in accordance with the Word of God that cannot lie.... No human being can condemn another. Judgment is in the hand of the Lord; but sinful, evil works are what condemn man, when he has not left them in accordance with the Word of God and brought forth honest fruits of repentance....”
― William Roscoe Estep, The Anabaptist Story: An Introduction to Sixteenth-Century Anabaptism

“From the Geschichts-Buch comes a graphic account of those terrible days of suffering.
It was stated above that the year 1621 began with much tribulation.... I cannot tell what awful devilish things were perpetrated
on many good, pious and honorable sisters ... , yea, on children, both boys and girls. Women with child and mothers on their deathbed as well as virgins were most outrageously attacked. The men were burned with glowing irons and red-hot pans; their feet were held in the fire until their toes were burned off; wounds were cut into which powder was poured and then set afire; ... eyes forced out by inhuman torture; men were hung up by the neck like thieves.... Such things were openly practised by the imperial soldiery who believed themselves to be the best of Christians.... One would suppose that the devil himself would have been more fearful of the might, power, glory and majesty of God than these shameless men. May God lead them to realize it, to whom and to whose righteous judgment we commit everything.28”
― William Roscoe Estep, The Anabaptist Story: An Introduction to Sixteenth-Century Anabaptism

“From the Geschichts-Buch comes a graphic account of those terrible days of suffering. It was stated above that the year 1621 began with much tribulation.... I cannot tell what awful devilish things were perpetrated on many good, pious and honorable sisters ... , yea, on children, both boys and girls. Women with child and mothers on their deathbed as well as virgins were most outrageously attacked. The men were burned with glowing irons and red-hot pans; their feet were held in the fire until their toes were burned off; wounds were cut into which powder was poured and then set afire; ... eyes forced out by inhuman torture; men were hung up by the neck like thieves.... Such things were openly practised by the imperial soldiery who believed themselves to be the best of Christians.... One would suppose that the devil himself would have been more fearful of the might, power, glory and majesty of God than these shameless men. May God lead them to realize it, to whom and to whose righteous judgment we commit everything.”
― William Roscoe Estep, The Anabaptist Story: An Introduction to Sixteenth-Century Anabaptism

“Dirk Philips: "The apostles, according to the command of the Lord, through the preaching of the gospel, in faith and truth, and by proper Christian baptism, and the power and unity of the Holy Spirit, gathered a church out of all nations (Matt. 28:19, 20; Mark 16:15, 16)."16”
― William Roscoe Estep, The Anabaptist Story: An Introduction to Sixteenth-Century Anabaptism

“Baptism, while necessary as the initial act of obedient discipleship, is also the indispensable sign of incorporation into the visible fellowship of believers.”
― William Roscoe Estep, The Anabaptist Story: An Introduction to Sixteenth-Century Anabaptism