“Actually, the biggest danger to the Christian church does not come from the persecution without, but from heresy within.” — David Robertson Copy Share Image
The reason we have a Cuban Adjustment Act is because, at the beginning, they [migrants] were fleeing political persecution. — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
“... how terrible is the pain of the mind and heart when the freedom of mankind is suppressed!” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Persecution is simply the clash between two irreconcilable value-systems. — John Stott Copy Share Image
If I had not been discriminated against or had not suffered persecution, I would never have received the Nobel Prize. — Rita Levi-Montalcini Copy Share Image
Persecution, in short, is like the goldsmith's stamp on real silver and gold - it is one of the marks of a… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God. — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
When I first went to places where people were suffering from war and persecution, I felt ashamed of my feelings of sadness.… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
Far from being an aberration that is not representative of Christianity, the persecution of heretics follows logically from the connection of faith… — Shadia Drury Copy Share Image
The actual point in question, throughout the centuries of Christian persecution, has never been faith in God, but faith in the Bible… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I talked about the persecution of Algerians and told about racism in my childhood. And it was as if, after that, I… — Isabelle Adjani Copy Share Image
I'm an atheist, so it was actually a joy. Spitting on Christ was a great deal of fun. I can't embrace a… — Amanda Donohoe Copy Share Image
And for all his life it would be kindness and love that made him cry, never pain or persecution, which on the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Persecution in intellectual countries produces a superficial conformity, but also underneath an intense, incessant, implacable doubt. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
... social evils are dangerously contagious. The fixed policy of persecution and injustice against a class of women who are weak and… — Fannie Barrier Williams Copy Share Image
It was the disobedience and rebellion of the Jews, God's chosen people, to their covenantal responsibility to serve only the one true… — John Hagee Copy Share Image
There was a lynching case as late as 2011, so it's not as far away as we think. I think persecution by… — Harry Lennix Copy Share Image
The suffering and calamity are, moreover, exceptional. They befall a conspicuous person. They are themselves of some striking kind. They are also,… — A. C. Bradley Copy Share Image
The grand reason of the burst of public sentiment in anathemas upon Christ and his disciples, causing his crucifixion, was evidently based… — Jedediah M. Grant Copy Share Image
Oh, if you only knew what joy, what sweetness awaits a righteous soul in Heaven! You would decide in this mortal life… — Seraphim of Sarov Copy Share Image
But then why is it so terrible for me to be with the girl I love? Everyone one is permitted to have… — Tabitha Suzuma Copy Share Image
“Religious toleration, to a certain extent, has been won, because people have ceased to consider religion so important as it was once… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Persecution means an attempt to drive out, attempt to subjugate, and there are various ways that that can be done. Sarah Palin's… — Matthew Continetti Copy Share Image
“The myth of Christian martyrdom and persecution needs to be corrected, because it has left us with a dangerous legacy that poisons… — Candida Moss Copy Share Image
I support, defend, and admire prostitutes, gay or straight. They do important and necessary work, whether moralists of the Left and Right… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Without self-knowledge you have no root in yourselves personally; you may endure for a time, but under affliction or persecution your faith… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subsciously aware of having no… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“However, before long, you find it has always happened that the low tide returns. The ocean of grace seemed to recede; the… — Charles Haddon Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The American Negro must rebuild his past in order to make his future. Though it is orthodox to think of America as… — Arturo Alfonso Schomburg Copy Share Image
...I couldn't but surmise that the devil, looking at the cruel wars that Christianity has occasioned, the persecutions, the tortures Christian has… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
My aim is to lay bare and proclaim the crying and horrible guilt of the bloody doctrine of persecution as one of… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image