Persecution Quotes - Page 17

• I could well believe that it is God's intention, since we have refused milder remedies, to compel [Christians] into unity, by persecution even. Satan is without doubt nothing else than a hammer in the hand of a benevolent and severe God.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Believe, Hands

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• Give us a genuine Christianity that may provoke persecution, but will not provoke contempt.

  A. C. Dixon

  Giving, May, Christianity

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• If we suffer persecution and affliction in a right manner, we attain a larger measure of conformity to Christ, by a due improvement of one of these occasions, than we could have done merely by imitating his mercy, in abundance of good works.

  John Wesley

  Christian, Suffering, Affliction

  John Wesley, Bp. John Emory, Thomas Jackson (1831). “The Works of the Rev. John Wesley, A.M.: Miscellaneous”, p.525

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• We have entered a period of intolerance which combines, as it sometimes does in America, with a sugary taste for euphemism.

  Robert Hughes

  America, Tolerance, Doe

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• ... social evils are dangerously contagious. The fixed policy of persecution and injustice against a class of women who are weak and defenseless will be necessarily hurtful to the cause of all women.

  Fannie Barrier Williams

  Class, Racism, Evil

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• The suffering of sickness and the suffering of persecution have this in common: they are both intended by Satan for the destruction of our faith, and governed by God for the purifying of our faith... Christ sovereignly accomplishes His loving, purifying purpose, by overruling Satan's destructive attempts. Satan is always aiming to destroy our faith; but Christ magnifies His power in weakness.

  John Piper

  Suffering, Weakness, Purpose

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• A younger sister is someone to use as a guinea-pig in trying sledges and experimental go-carts. Someone to send on messages to Mum. But someone who needs you - who comes to you with bumped heads, grazed knees, tales of persecution. Someone who trusts you to defend her. Someone who thinks you know the answers to almost everything.

  Pam Brown

  Sister, Sibling, Thinking

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• If any religion allows the persecution of the people of different faiths, if any religion keeps women in slavery, if any religion keeps people in ignorance, then I can't accept that religion.

  Taslima Nasrin

  Ignorance, People, Atheism

  "One Brave Woman vs. Religious Fundamentalism: An Interview With Taslima Nasrin". Interview with Matt Cherry and Warren Allen Smith, www.secularhumanism.org. December 31, 1998.

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• Persecution mania is still around. In your writing, in your exchanges with people, meeting people who are in Russian affairs, Russian literature, etcetera.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Writing, People, Etcetera

  Joseph Brodsky, Cynthia L. Haven (2002). “Joseph Brodsky: Conversations”, p.80, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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