...our pilgrimage among house churches in persecution…

“Contemplating the extinction of Christian communities, others might also be moved to consider profound issues of meaning, which recall the agonized dilemmas of Jewish…

— Philip Jenkins

“...persecution is normal for millions of believers around the world.”

— Nik Ripkin

“Persecution stop immediately where there is no faith and there is no witness.”

— Nik Ripkin

“You can only grow in jail what you take to jail with you. You can only grow in persecution what you take into it.”

— Nik Ripkin

From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the…

— Matilda Joslyn Gage

The sectaries of a persecuted religion, depressed by fear, animated with resentment, and perhaps heated by enthusiasm, are seldom in a proper temper of…

— Edward Gibbon

Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution.

— Edwin Louis Cole

Persecution, in short, is like the goldsmith's stamp on real silver and gold - it is one of the marks of a converted man.

— J. C. Ryle

“People talk about history and things like slavery, genocide, and religious persecution as horrors that happened in the past because we were ignorant. But…

— J. Matthew Nespoli

I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

... happily the Government of the United States... gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance.

— George Washington

“Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic, because in arithmetic there is knowledge, but in theology there is only opinion.”

— Bertrand Russell

Persecution matures young rebels.

— Han Suyin

“Jesus came to give his righteousness not to condemn the unrighteous.”

— Mac Canoza

There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution.

— John Milton