Bishops Quote by Benjamin Franklin

If we look back in history for the character of the present sects in Christianity, we shall find a few that have not in…

— Benjamin Franklin

Persecutions are inevitable as a Christian. We are not greater than our Master, Jesus Christ, in whose Holy Spirit we gain strength to endure.

— Anonymous

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

Far from being an aberration that is not representative of Christianity, the persecution of heretics follows logically from the connection of faith and salvation…

— Shadia Drury

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

— Ramsay MacMullen

Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.

— Thomas Paine

Christians are not so much in danger when they are persecuted as when they are admired.

— Charles Spurgeon

Spiritual people are often persecuted because of their beliefs. Christians were fed to the lions. Jews were slaughtered in concentration camps. Various forms of…

— Frederick Lenz

And in times and places where there was not much persecution, people could become and continue Christians who neither were nor professed to be…

— Robert Rainy

Every religious pioneer, including Jesus Christ, was persecuted by his contemporaries. But once people understand me, their turn can be dramatic like Saint Paul's.

— Sun Myung Moon

Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.

— Anonymous

Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world.

— William Hazlitt