“There was a feeling on the air like the eve of the end of the world...” — Billie-Jo Williams Copy Share Image
Persecution to persons in a high rank stands them in the stead of eminent virtue. — Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Copy Share Image
We must remember that this nation was founded by people fleeing religious persecution, risking everything to find a place to be free… — Tulsi Gabbard Copy Share Image
“People talk about history and things like slavery, genocide, and religious persecution as horrors that happened in the past because we were… — J. Matthew Nespoli Copy Share Image
We cannot change what happened anymore. The only thing we can do is to learn from the past and to realize what… — Otto Frank Copy Share Image
In all places, and in all times, those religionists who have believed too much have been more inclined to violence and persecution… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“Don’t ever give up in freedom what we would never have given up in persecution! That is our witness to the power… — Nik Ripken Copy Share Image
Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
The Lord challenges us to suffer persecutions and to confess Him. He wants thiose who belong to him to be brave and… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
The Enlightenment attacked religion - Christianity, mainly - for two reasons: that it was a set of ideological delusions, and that it… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
People say that Nagasaki is famous for persecution and devastation, for it has known much in it's history. But Nagasaki is not… — Takashi Nagai Copy Share Image
Our two nations have a lot in common, when you think about it. We were both founded by immigrants escaping religious persecution… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Let us, then, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind. Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
That ideology was never going to work, was it? It was just cobbled together from different beliefs: The anti-intellectualism of the Khmer… — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
And in that hour, The seeds of cruelty, that since have swell'd To such gigantic and enormous growth, Were sown in human… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
I prize my own independence too much. And philosophically, I could never accept any rigid dogma or ideology, whether it's Christianity or… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
His readiness to undergo persecutions for his beliefs, the high moral character of the men who believed in him and looked up… — William Montgomery Watt Copy Share Image
After he has been following Christ for a long time, the disciple of Jesus will be asked, "Lacked ye anything?" and he… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“The neo-cons, or some of them, decided that they would back Clinton when he belatedly decided for Bosnia and Kosovo against Milosevic,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The Christians who engaged in infamous persecutions and shameful inquisitions were not evil men but misguided men. The churchmen who felt they… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“Thus identified with astronomy, in proclaiming truths supposed to be hostile to Scripture, Geology has been denounced as the enemy of religion.… — David Brewster Copy Share Image
“Father Brendan Flynn: "A woman was gossiping with her friend about a man whom they hardly knew - I know none of… — John Patrick Shanley Copy Share Image
Persecution has come upon us, right honorable brethren, and persecution in the severest form. Shepherds are persecuted that their flocks may be… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
Even as we slog through the trials, persecutions, irritations, temptations, distractions, apathy, and just plain weariness of this world, the gospel points… — Greg Gilbert Copy Share Image
“The scriptures present a God who delights in genocide, rape, slavery, and the execution of nonconformists, and for millennia those writings were… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims. — Morris Raphael Cohen Copy Share Image
Our brothers and sisters in Muslim countries can't celebrate Christmas-or any aspect of their faith-openly for fear of persecution and death. And… — Erwin W. Lutzer Copy Share Image
You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“I want you to see persecution and opposition and slander and misunderstanding and disappointment and self-recrimination and weakness and danger as the… — John Piper Copy Share Image
With patience and calm, persistence and stoicism, good handwriting and careful labeling, they would meet persecution, indignity, and hardship head-on. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
The Church of Christ has been founded by shedding its own blood, not that of others; by enduring outrage, not by inflicting… — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
My father has been targeted for persecution by the Turkish government and its leader, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, because of his association… — Enes Kanter Copy Share Image
The white people of the South are the greatest minority in this nation. They deserve consideration and understanding instead of the persecution… — Strom Thurmond Copy Share Image
Cubans must prove that they're political refugees. And if they can prove that they're really fleeing persecution, well, they would qualify as… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
“the challenge of living with popular culture may well be as serious for modern Christians as persecution and plagues were for the… — Ken Myers Copy Share Image
I believe God gives us special grace to help us in moments of persecution. But I also believe he often uses his… — Johnnie Moore, Jr Copy Share Image
There have been times I almost got a persecution complex. I felt like people wouldn't let me grow up. They always saw… — Ricky Schroder Copy Share Image
And at home in the United States we found continued and increased persecution, first of leaders of the Communist Party, and then… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
In a country where Christians were looked upon with suspicion and disfavor, a government leader said to me with a twinkle in… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
One would think that [persecution] would be an obstacle to church growth when joining the church meant a death sentence. And yet,… — Gene Veith Copy Share Image
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