I taught in the Academy from the opening of the schools until I was turned out, a period much longer than I… — Thomas Eakins Copy Share Image
Persecution in intellectual countries produces a superficial conformity, but also underneath an intense, incessant, implacable doubt. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
The Nazis spoke of having a Jewish problem. We now speak of having a drug-abuse problem. Actually, "Jewish problem" was the name… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
A church that suffers no persecution but enjoys the privileges and support of the things of the earth - beware! - is… — Oscar Romero Copy Share Image
“I want men who will believe in Me, even when I do not protect them; I will not open the prison doors… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Our good qualities expose us more to hatred and persecution than all the ill we do. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Suspicion and persecution are weeds of the same dunghill, and flourish best together. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
We face so many challenges in life: poverty, distress, humiliation, the struggle for justice, persecutions, the difficulty of daily conversion, the effort… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Spiritual people are often persecuted because of their beliefs. Christians were fed to the lions. Jews were slaughtered in concentration camps. Various… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Le silence est la plus grande perse cution: jamais les saints ne se sont tus. Silence is the greatest of all persecutions:… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
If one takes full account of the persecution of heretics, the frequency and savagery of the religious wars which Christianity had endangered,… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
Constancy, far from being a virtue, seems often to be the besetting sin of the human race, daughter of laziness and self-sufficiency,… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
That which corrodes the souls of the persecuted is the monstrous inner agreement with the prevailing prejudice against them. — Eric Hoffer 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
I could well believe that it is God's intention, since we have refused milder remedies, to compel [Christians] into unity, by persecution… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Long before it was known to me as a place where my ancestry was even remotely involved, the idea of a state… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
We may very well wake up in the not-too-distant future in a culture that is not only unreceptive but openly hostile to… — Josh McDowell Copy Share Image
The apostles suffered incredible persecution and died horrible deaths in the Christian cause. The only possible explanation for their zeal was that… — Fritz Ridenour Copy Share Image
Happiness is caused by things that happen around me, and circumstances will mar it; but joy flows right on through trouble; joy… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
“A state which which includes within itself a terrorized Church has lost its most faithful servant.” — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
I have been persecuted since I joined politics, and I have been living in persecution since then. — Roy Bennett Copy Share Image
I went to church every Sunday...I understood Christmas and what Easter was about. I understood the persecution of Christ, the crucifixion of… — Juan Pablo Di Pace Copy Share Image
Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and… — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
