The first persecution of the Church took place in the year 67, under Nero, the sixth emperor of Rome. — John Foxe Copy Share Image
I think if you come from a history of persecution you have to develop a sense of humour. — Sacha Baron Cohen Copy Share Image
“ROM8.35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To show a well-founded fear of persecution, an alien need not prove that it is more likely than not that he or… — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
In 1913, the noted German actor and director Paul Wegener was making a film in Prague when he heard the legend of… — Kage Baker Copy Share Image
“If your written words become literal nails to crucify you with, then you have done your job well. You provoked a reaction,… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
Jewish persecution is a historical memory of the present generation and people fear it in the present day, and that's why those… — Gregg Easterbrook Copy Share Image
“History has proved and will prove again with this case that another church revival will happen after this new wave of persecution.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Persecution has not crushed it, power has not beaten it back, time has not abated its force, and, what is most wonderful… — Horace Bushnell Copy Share Image
“Persecution is an enemy the Church has met and mastered many times. Indifference could prove to be a far more dangerous foe.” — Brother Andrew 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
Does anyone know... does the Christian persecution complex have an expiration date? Because... uh... you've all been in charge pretty much since...… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
[The rhetoric] is trying to avoid [the truth that ] the U.N. formally found that the whole thing is illegal, never even… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
“Now whenever things are so that a lot of people feel they ought to be doing something, the weak, and those who… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
It is essential that the sufferings of Jews become worse this will assist in realization of our plans I have an excellent… — Theodor Herzl Copy Share Image
The Jewish question exists wherever the Jews live, however small their number. Where it does not exist it is imported by Jew… — Theodor Herzl Copy Share Image
“The just and the worthy have to suffer in order to spread their ideas and let them be known. One has to… — José Rizal Copy Share Image
Our Lord came to the aid of each great tribulation with a special devotion. The present and future tribulations of the Church… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
“With the growth of civilisation in Europe, and with the revival of letters and of science in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries,… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“I remember one Gentleman objected to the Christian Faith, that it made Men insolent, quarrelsom and ill-natur'd. From whence I concluded, (as… — William Stephens Copy Share Image
On many occasions I have been asked if I think persecution will come to the Western church. My answer might surprise you.… — Brother Yun Copy Share Image
I have a general feeling that writers and artists who are in this peculiar situation, of being a persecuted artist, all anyone… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
It shouldn't be difficult, then, to make the transposition at this point into the early Christian vision of Jesus and the Spirit… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Difficult days are ahead. Sin is on the increase. Paul foresaw that members of the Church would endure persecution (see 2 Timothy… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
But this inestimable privilege was soon violated: with the knowledge of truth the emperor imbibed the maxims of persecution; and the sects… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Government as well as religion has furnished its schisms, its persecutions and its devices for fattening idleness on the earnings of the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I'm an atheist, so it was actually a joy. Spitting on Christ was a great deal of fun. I can't embrace a… — Amanda Donohoe Copy Share Image
And for all his life it would be kindness and love that made him cry, never pain or persecution, which on the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Persecution in intellectual countries produces a superficial conformity, but also underneath an intense, incessant, implacable doubt. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
... social evils are dangerously contagious. The fixed policy of persecution and injustice against a class of women who are weak and… — Fannie Barrier Williams Copy Share Image
Is it not enough that all the world is against us, but we must also be against one another? O happy days… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
Only believe, don't fear. Our Master, Jesus, always watches over us, and no matter what the persecution, Jesus will surely overcome it. — Lottie Moon Copy Share Image
When I first went to places where people were suffering from war and persecution, I felt ashamed of my feelings of sadness.… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
Far from being an aberration that is not representative of Christianity, the persecution of heretics follows logically from the connection of faith… — Shadia Drury Copy Share Image
The actual point in question, throughout the centuries of Christian persecution, has never been faith in God, but faith in the Bible… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I talked about the persecution of Algerians and told about racism in my childhood. And it was as if, after that, I… — Isabelle Adjani Copy Share Image
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. Persecution is used in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We need to do more to stop Iran's persecution of different religious faiths, including Sunni Muslims, Christians, and Bahais. We must do… — Brad Schneider Copy Share Image
There are only two things in which the false professors of all religions have agreed--to persecute all other sects and to plunder… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It is a sad thing that in the unfortunate times in which we live, the purest life, the most incontestable virtue, cannot… — Alexander Dumas Copy Share Image
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