Persecution Quote by Blaise Pascal Download Open image “Silence is the greatest persecution; never do the saints keep themselves silent.” — Blaise Pascal ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Persecution Saint Silence Silence is Silent
Le silence est la plus grande perse cution: jamais les saints ne se sont tus. Silence is the greatest of all persecutions: no saint… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Silence promotes the presence of God, prevents many harsh and proud words, and suppresses many dangers in the way of ridiculing or harshly judging… — François Fénelon Copy Share Image
“Silence is one of the deepest disciplines of the Spirit simply because it puts the stopper on all self-justification. One of the fruits of… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
Silence is a trick when it imposes. Pedants and scholars, churchmen and physicians, abound in silent pride. — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
“Silence frees us from the need to control others. One reason we can hardly bear to remain silent is that it makes us feel… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
Silence is full of the unspoken, of deeds undone, of confessions to secret love, and of wonders not expressed. Our truth is hidden in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every day silence harvests its victims. Silence is a mortal illness. — Natalia Ginzburg Copy Share Image
Silence is not as golden as you think, its more of a way to isolate oneself from the reality around them. — Travis Martin Copy Share Image
Silence is terrible and painful only to those who have said all and have nothing more to speak of; but to those who never… — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
Silence is regarded as a sort of sin now, and it has to be filled with a lot of gossip and soundbites. — Douglas Hurd Copy Share Image
“Do they think that they have given us great pleasure by telling us that they hold our soul to be no more than wind… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There should be in eloquence that which is pleasing and that which is real; but that which is pleasing should itself be real. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The method of not erring is sought by all the world. The logicians profess to guide it, the geometricians alone attain it, and apart… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Mahomet established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Reflect on death as in Jesus Christ, not as without Jesus Christ. Without Jesus Christ it is dreadful, it is alarming, it is the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The Stoics say, "Retire within yourselves; it is there you will find your rest." And that is not true. Others say, "Go out of… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We desire truth, and find within ourselves only uncertainty. We seek happiness, and find only misery and death. We cannot but desire truth and… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution. — Edwin Louis Cole Copy Share Image
... happily the Government of the United States... gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance. — George Washington Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Cruelty was the devil, and most people were, in one way or another, cruel. Tyranny, suppression, persecution, torture, slavery, war, neglect - all were… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
The spirit of religious persecution is not the special failing of any particular faith, but springs eternal in the human breast. — Dion Fortune Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time, there was a safe, private place to take your controversial stand for Jesus. No more. If you are going to… — John Piper Copy Share Image
