Persecution Quotes - Page 5

• Do not expect, my friend, that the whole world will rejoice if you become Christian. You will probably receive enmity and hatred and persecution from certain people. It happened in the case of our Lord, and His followers must always be ready to meet it.

  Martyn

  Christian, People, Hatred

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• The true Church has never sounded out public expectations before launching her mission. Her leaders heard from God, they knew their Lord's will and did it. Their people followed them - sometimes to triumph, oftener to insults and public persecution - and their sufficient reward was the satisfaction of being right in a wrong world!

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  People, Expectations, Leader

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• A person can't brood over one mistake, or waste time feeling sorry for himself, or take on any sort of persecution complex. Today I realize that once you have made a mistake, you must accept it, profit by it, and then totally dismiss it from your mind.

  Bart Starr

  Sports, Sorry, Mistake

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• When the church encounters hardship, persecution, and suffering, then it is closest to its crucified Lord. Then there are fewer hypocrites and nominal believers among its members, and then the faith of Christians burns most intensely.

  Gene Veith

  Christian, Hypocrite, Suffering

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• Prayer cleanses from sin, drives away temptations, stamps out persecutions, comforts the fainthearted, gives new strength to the courageous, brings travellers safely home, calms the waves, confounds robbers, feeds the poor, overrules the rich, lifts up the fallen, supports those who are falling, sustains those who stand firm.

  Tertullian

  Prayer, Fall, Home

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• Christianity is anything but safe. Jesus made clear that trouble and persecution stood in the future for His followers.

  Dillon Burroughs

  Jesus, Followers, Safe

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• Condemn no man for not thinking as you think. Let every one enjoy the full and free liberty of thinking for himself. Let every man use his own judgment, since every man must give an account of himself to God. Abhor every approach, in any kind or degree, to the spirit of persecution, if you cannot reason nor persuade a man into the truth, never attempt to force a man into it. If love will not compel him to come, leave him to God, the judge of all.

  John Wesley

  Men, Thinking, Giving

  John Wesley (1826). “The Works of the Rev. John Wesley: The eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first numbers of his journal, particular of his death, review of his character, &c”, p.421

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• Earnest Freethinkers need not worry themselves so much about the persecutions of the past. Before the Liberal idea is dead or triumphant we shall see wars and persecutions the like of which the world has never seen.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  War, Past, Ideas

  "Daily News", February 18, 1905.

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• This is what democracy is all about. People have every right to protest whoever's in the White House, without fear of persecution. If this happened in Iran, people would be shot on the streets. This is the United States of America, and we have a First Amendment that protects this kind of speech.

  Michael McCaul

  People, House, Democracy

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Affliction shows the power of Christ's blood, when it gives peace in an hour of trouble, when it can make happy in sickness, poverty, persecution and death. Do not be surprised if you suffer, but glorify God.

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Christian, Blood, Make Happy

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne (1856). “The Life and Remains, Letters, Lectures, and Poems of the Rev. Robert Murray McCheyne”, p.399

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• Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Virtue, Easy, Form

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• Our good qualities expose us more to hatred and persecution than all the ill we do.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Hatred, Quality, Goodness

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• Happiness is caused by things that happen around me, and circumstances will mar it; but joy flows right on through trouble; joy flows in the night as well as in the day; joy flows through persecution and opposition. It is an unceasing fountain bubbling up in the heart; a secret spring the world can't see and doesn't know anything about.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Spring, Heart, Night

  Dwight L Moody (2013). “Secret Power”, p.74, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Persecution has never hurt the church ... only prosperity.

  Paul Washer

  Hurt, Church, Prosperity

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• Let us not forget: we are a pilgrim church, subject to misunderstanding, to persecution, but a church that walks serene, because it bears the force of love.

  Oscar Romero

  Church, Bears, Forget

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• Religious freedom is often referred to as America's first freedom. Our country was founded by religious exiles and built on the belief that God has given all people certain inalienable rights. Government's role in society is to protect these rights and ensure that we are safe from religious persecution and discrimination.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Religious, Rights

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• Churches thrive on martyrdom and persecution.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Church, Thrive, Martyrdom

  Robert A. Heinlein (1983). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, Berkley

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• The executions, persecution and imprisonment of political dissidents and the LGBT community, denial of free press, elections and religious freedoms, continue to be Fidel Castro's legacy.

  Andy Garcia

  Religious, Lgbt Community, Political

  "Cuban-American celebrities offer messages of hope following death of Fidel Castro". www.foxnews.com. November 27, 2016.

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• Fascism was part of the absolute evil. (...) We have to denounce the ashaming pages in the history of our past. (...) There included all the pages related to the discrimination and the persecution of jews and, more in general, of minoritires. And therefore that one [The Italian Social Republic of Salò] is also included.

  Gianfranco Fini

  Italian, Past, Evil

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• The biggest religious wars and persecutions in history occur when religions, each claiming their own absolute truths, come into conflict.

  Susan Jacoby

  Religious, War, Conflict

  "'Strange Gods' Chronicles The History Of Secularism And Conversion". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 17, 2016.

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• America became a special source of attraction to people who were fleeing the aftereffects of the 30 Years War and the religious persecution that began to sweep through Europe in the period between the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. And when people got here, very often they succeeded.

  Mitch Horowitz

  Religious, War, Years

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 4, 2010.

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• Over the years, Britain has made her own, unique contribution to Europe. We have provided a haven to those fleeing tyranny and persecution. And in Europe's darkest hour, we helped keep the flame of liberty alight. Across the continent, in silent cemeteries, lie the hundreds of thousands of British servicemen who gave their lives for Europe's freedom.

  David Cameron

  Lying, Unique, Years

  "The Danger Is that Europe Will Fail". David Cameron Speech on the Future of Europe, www.spiegel.de. January 23, 2013.

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• The liberty of the press would be an empty sound, and no man would venture to write on any subject, however, pure his purpose, without an attorney at one elbow and a counsel at the other. From minds thus subdued by the fear of punishment, there could issue no works of genius to expand the empire of human reason.

  Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine

  Writing, Men, Media

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• When the Turkish authorities gave the orders for these deportations, they were merely giving the death warrant to a whole race; they understood this well, and, in their conversations with me, they made no particular attempt to conceal the fact… I am confident that the whole history of the human race contains no such horrible episode as this. The great massacres and persecutions of the past seem almost insignificant when compared to the sufferings of the Armenian race in 1915.

  Henry Morgenthau, Sr.

  Past, Race, Order

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• Whence arose all the horrid assassinations of whole nations of men, women, and infants, with which the Bible is filled; and the bloody persecutions, and tortures unto death, and religiosu wars, that since that time have laid Europe in blood and ashes; whence arose they, but from this impious thing called religion, and this monstrous belief that God has spoken to man?

  Thomas Paine

  War, Men, Blood

  Thomas Paine (1824). “The Theological Works of Thomas Paine”, p.151

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