Persecutions are inevitable as a Christian. We are not…

“The devil is our mortal enemy, the world attacks us horribly, and it is evident everywhere that there is no more miserable and contemptible…

— Martin Luther

The very fears and guilts imposed by religious training are responsible for some of history's most brutal wars, crusades, pogroms, and persecutions, including five…

— Barbara G. Walker

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

— Susan Jacoby

“The chopping block was not confined to one era, nor one form or country. There were many types of martyrdoms, spiritual as well as…

— E.A. Bucchianeri

The whole history of the last thousands of years has been a history of religious persecutions and wars, pogroms, jihads, crusades. I find it…

— Steven Weinberg

Once again, through myself, the Church, in the words of the well-known declaration Nostra Aetate, 'deplores the hatred, persecutions and displays of anti-Semitism directed…

— Pope John Paul II

People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the world lasts.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

The Church of Christ has been founded by shedding its own blood, not that of others; by enduring outrage, not by inflicting it. Persecutions…

— St. Jerome

More Christians died for their faith at the hands of fellow Christians than had died before in all the persecutions.

— Ramsay MacMullen

I have spent seven of the 12 years I have been married a victim of political persecution. I must be the first male spouse…

— Asif Ali Zardari

“The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin in this…

— Thomas Paine

“Look on the effect of your religions, those movements that have swept up millions with their fantastical claims. Look at what they have done…

— Anne Rice

“How easily we abandon those who have suffered the same persecutions as we have. How quickly we grow impatient with their inability to transcend…

— Larissa Lai

Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.

— Morris Raphael Cohen

Afflictions, persecutions, imprisonments, and death, we must expect, according to the scriptures, which tell us that the blood of those whose souls were under…

— Joseph Smith, Jr