If one fears men much he will never do anything great for God: all that one does for God arouses persecution. — Ignatius of Loyola Copy Share Image
Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution. — Edwin Louis Cole Copy Share Image
Wherever you see persecution, there is more than a probability that truth lies on the persecuted side. — Hugh Latimer Copy Share Image
“I will follow anyone... and remind everyone... of the pain of the Yazidi women” — Widad Akrawi Copy Share Image
Where religion is trivialized, one is unlikely to find persecution. — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Never, never will justice be used in Haitian institutions as an instrument for political persecution. — Jovenel Moise Copy Share Image
Journalism has a special, hallowed place for stories of its practitioners' persecution. — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
“You can only grow in jail what you take to jail with you. You can only grow in persecution what you take… — Nik Ripkin Copy Share Image
Ty Cobb was still fighting the Civil War, and as far as he was concerned, we were all damn Yankees. But who… — Sam Crawford Copy Share Image
“True believing Christians are sheep among wolves, sheep for the slaughter. They must be baptized in anxiety, distress, affliction, persecution, suffering, and… — William Roscoe Step Copy Share Image
I can't even explain to you how terrible that feels, that I equate dating a woman with punishment, shame, guilt, disappointment, reproach,… — John Mayer Copy Share Image
Our [Russia]documents have gone on to be used in quite a number of court cases: refugee cases of people fleeing some kind… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
We have a moral obligation to assist those fleeing religious persecution and to no longer turn a blind eye to the plight… — Mark Meadows Copy Share Image
I am a 20th century escaped slave. Because of government persecution, I was left with no other choice than to flee from… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time, there was a safe, private place to take your controversial stand for Jesus. No more. If you are… — John Piper Copy Share Image
And in times and places where there was not much persecution, people could become and continue Christians who neither were nor professed… — Robert Rainy Copy Share Image
Cruelty was the devil, and most people were, in one way or another, cruel. Tyranny, suppression, persecution, torture, slavery, war, neglect -… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
If there is one thing I fear less than everything else, it is, I believe, persecution for my opinions. There are a… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
If martyrdom is now on the decline, it is not because martyrs are less zealous, but because martyr-mongers are more wise. The… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“What is boasted of at the present time as the revival of religion, is always, in narrow and uncultivated minds, at least… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Considering he was neither priest nor scholar, the young man gave sensible, thoughtful replies -- the more so, perhaps, for being untrained,… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
The patriot, like the Christian, must learn to bear revilings and persecutions as a part of his duty; and in proportion as… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Scientists gladly accept any new truth demonstrated by evidence, that is, proved by the very law of the cosmos. Not so with… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
“...suggest four general maxims, which will prove an adequate preventive of persecution mania if their truth is sufficiently realized. The first is:… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The aggressive and quite illogical idea of a single religion for all mankind, a religion universal by the very force of its… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Will a day come when the race will detect the funniness of these juvenilities and laugh at them—and by laughing at them… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The central ideas of Christianity — an angry God and vicarious atonement — are contrary to every fact in nature, as also… — Virchand Gandhi Copy Share Image
“When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The deeply rooted Christianity of Africa and Asia did not simply fade away through lack of zeal, or theological confusion: it was… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
As a form of moral insurance, at least, literature is much more dependable than a system of beliefs or a philosophical doctrine.… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
It must be understood that there are no nominal, halfhearted, lukewarm Christians in Russia or China. The price Christians pay is far… — Richard Wurmbrand Copy Share Image
“There is one element in Christianity which was not borrowed from Paganism -- religious intolerance. Referring to Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism, a… — John E. Remsburg Copy Share Image
Persecution on racial and religious grounds has absolutely no place in a nation given over to liberty. — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
Suspicion and persecution are weeds of the same dunghill, and flourish best together. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The monster, fanaticism, still exists, and whoever seeks after truth will run the risk of being persecuted. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution. — Bill Condon Copy Share Image
I don't think that the economy can absorb a massive flow of immigration that does not relate to the issue of persecution. — Janet Reno Copy Share Image
The U.S. is a Government which to bigotry gives no sanction, to persecution no assistance. — George Washington Copy Share Image
“A state which which includes within itself a terrorized Church has lost its most faithful servant.” — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
“It is unjust, but only Christlike, to suffer persecution for doing what is right.” — Joyce Rachelle Copy Share Image