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Death didn’t have the final say with Jesus and doesn’t have to have the final say with us.
— Stephen “Tig” Intagliata, Bluffton University campus pastor, at a memorial service for five students who died in a bus accident

When Lee walked into a room, so much light followed.
— Ingrid DeSanctis, drama colleague of Lee Eshleman, after Eshleman’s death by suicide

We still have God, and we still have each other.
— Paul Unruh, Greensburg (Kan.) Mennonite Church member, after a tornado destroyed the church building

We often believe we can think our way into a new way of living. . . . It’s more likely that we will live our way into a new way of thinking.
— Joy Carroll Wallis, Anglican priest, at Goshen College commencement

The gift of evangelization and prayer is what we have.
— Eddy Ngumba, Congolese pastor, of what his people can contribute to a relationship with Mennonite Church USA

If diplomats were talking, we wouldn’t be essential.
— Doug Hostetter, Mennonite Central Committee United Nations Office director, on why U.S. religious leaders met with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

We both seek and long for the same things: a world of peace and understanding in which conflicts are resolved.
— John Murray, pastor of Hesston (Kan.) Mennonite Church, on the basis for his friendship with Gen. David Petraeus, commander of U.S. forces in Iraq

I hear that God has highly eclectic tastes.
— Marva Dawn, theologian, at a conference on music and worship at Canadian Mennonite University

Our witness will remain impaired as long as the world sees our divisions.
— Pope Benedict XVI, to a Mennonite delegation at the Vatican, affirming Mennonite-Catholic dialogue

In the oppression we are in, where our dreams for our children have crumbled and families are lost, we must vow to draw closer to God, who is our hope and our peace.
— Danisa Ndlovu, Zimbabwean Brethren in Christ bishop, to his church’s annual conference

Katrina brought the wind, and Rita brought the rain, but MDS brought the hope.
— Lydia Lodrigue of Dulac, La., whose family received a house built by volunteers at the MC USA convention in San Jose, Calif., to replace the one lost to hurricanes in 2005

The world stands still for people living in these colonies.
— Jacobo Zacharias of Manitoba Colony, Mexico, on the importance of delivering Die Mennonitische Post to German-speaking Mennonites

How many of your friends know you are men and women of God?
— Brenda Matthews of Chicago, in a message to the MC USA Youth Convention in San Jose, Calif.

Our culture in the West needs Anabaptist spirituality. It is water to parched tongues.
— Shane Hipps, pastor of Trinity Mennonite Church in Glendale, Ariz., in a message to the MC USA assembly

My passionate response to this national tragedy is prompted by the message of Jesus.
— Garland Robertson, pastor of Austin (Texas) Mennonite Church and an Air Force veteran, on his arrest during an antiwar protest in Washington

They’re younger; they’re more willing to share their faith.
— J. Ron Byler, MC USA associate executive director, on members of non-European descent in comparison to the denomination’s historic ethnic groups