Silence is the greatest persecution; never do the saints keep themselves silent. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
We know that Maduro's armies are riddled with persecution, torture, threats, and wrongful arrests. — Juan Guaido Copy Share Image
“Stand up and wash away this shame from the face of Christ! They are spitting in His face.” — Sabina Wurmbrand Copy Share Image
“Being made up of distinctions, language finds it almost impossible to express undifferentiation.” — René Girard Copy Share Image
“Great minds with great ideas usually share in the midst of their persecution” — Jeremy Aldana Copy Share Image
“Those who think godly living makes them invulnerable to trouble are living in a fantasy world. - 2 Timothy 3:12” — Ray C. Stedman Copy Share Image
The emigrants although of different parties and different religious sects all flew from persecution in pursuit of liberty. — James Monroe Copy Share Image
Secularism is a religion, a religion that is understood. It has no mysteries, no mumblings, no priests, no ceremonies, no falsehoods, no… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Persecution cannot harm him who stands by Truth. Did not Socrates fall proudly a victim in body? Was not Paul stoned for… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“Then he raised his voice in a prophet-like challenge that I knew would live with me forever: "Don't ever give up in… — Nik Ripkin Copy Share Image
If power corrupts, the reverse is also true; persecution corrupts the victims though perhaps in subtler and more tragic ways. — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Even in November 1938, after five years of anti-Semitic legislation and persecution, they still owned, according to the Times correspondent in Berlin,… — Arthur Bryant Copy Share Image
Joseph Smith was true to his calling and fulfilled his duty even in the face of severe persecution and great personal sacrifice. — Joseph B. Wirthlin 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
“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
Prayer cleanses from sin, drives away temptations, stamps out persecutions, comforts the fainthearted, gives new strength to the courageous, brings travellers safely… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
Americans aren't buying the hate these anti-LGBT extremists are selling, so they've been forced to take their take their dangerous rhetoric abroad.… — Chad Griffin Copy Share Image
“We are not supposed to choose the easy solutions. We will no longer accept that our lives be blanketed with the doctrines… — Widad Akreyi Copy Share Image
After Bruno's death, during the first half of the seventeenth century, Descartes seemed about to take the leadership of human thought... in… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
We know that God disciplines His children, and that testing, suffering, and persecution come to us from Heaven to stretch, grow, and… — Kirk Cameron Copy Share Image
Historically the Puritans left England to escape religious persecution, and they promptly turned around and started persecuting the people they didn't agree… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
Compulsion in the literal Sense is maliciously misrepresented, by supposing it authorizes Violences committed against the Truth. The Answer to this; by… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
Tell a scoundrel, three or four times a day, that he is the pink of probity, and you make him at least… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“The myth of Christian martyrdom and persecution needs to be corrected, because it has left us with a dangerous legacy that poisons… — Candida Moss Copy Share Image
I support, defend, and admire prostitutes, gay or straight. They do important and necessary work, whether moralists of the Left and Right… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Without self-knowledge you have no root in yourselves personally; you may endure for a time, but under affliction or persecution your faith… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subsciously aware of having no… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
...I couldn't but surmise that the devil, looking at the cruel wars that Christianity has occasioned, the persecutions, the tortures Christian has… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“However, before long, you find it has always happened that the low tide returns. The ocean of grace seemed to recede; the… — Charles Haddon Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The American Negro must rebuild his past in order to make his future. Though it is orthodox to think of America as… — Arturo Alfonso Schomburg 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
Nothing is more logical than persecution. Religious tolerance is a kind of infidelity. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Perhaps the gravest under-publicized atrocity in the world is the persecution of Christians. — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
The persecution of Christians isn't isolated. Instead, it's rampant and expanding around the world. — Katie Pavlich Copy Share Image
“Banker-bashing: Should it not fall into the same category as bullying, persecution, racism and sexism?” — Przemek Skwirczynski Copy Share Image
How you look at life depends on which side of the prism you are looking at. — Biman Gandhi Copy Share Image
Polish culture has always had a strong anti-Semitic undercurrent. There has been awful persecution. — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
The evil that we do does not attract to us so much persecution and hatred as our good qualities. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Persecution is one way to drive believers away and create a carnal comfort zone. — John Hagee Copy Share Image