Persecuted Quotes
130 quotes by 115 authors
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Wherever you see persecution, there is more than a probability that truth lies on the persecuted side.
— Hugh Latimer
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Prayer is the most tangible expression of trust in God. If we would trust God for our persecuted brothers and sisters in other countries, we…
— Jerry Bridges
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In England, philosophers are honoured, respected; they rise to public offices, they are buried with the kings... In France warrants are issued against them, they…
— John Dewey
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If there is trouble in the country, neither I nor my people made it, and all that we have ever done, after much endurance on…
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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We may continue to expect the enjoyment of all the blessings of civil and religious liberty, guaranteed by the Constitution. The citizens of Illinois have…
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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Christians are not so much in danger when they are persecuted as when they are admired.
— Charles Spurgeon
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We must by every means humble our hearts and subdue our proud intellect, lest we should be like the contemporaries of the prophets, who looked…
— John of Kronstadt
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Because the Nazi venom worked its way even into our thoughts, every accurate thought was a conquest; because an all-powerful police sought to force us…
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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It is a bad world, Donatus, an incredibly bad world. But I have discovered in the midst of it a quiet and good people who…
— Cyprian
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Man's condition is never the same; he is humbled, then exalted; sometimes at peace, sometimes persecuted; enlightened today and plunged into darkness tomorrow. What is…
— Vincent de Paul
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From the steady opposition which faithful Friends in early times made to wrong things then approved, they were hated and persecuted by men living in…
— John Woolman
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Don't worry when you're being persecuted for God, worry when you're not.
— Craig Groeschel
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We are reviled but we do not intend to speak evil in return. We are in desperate straits but do not despair. We are persecuted…
— Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
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A church is disaffected when it is persecuted, quiet when it is tolerated, and actively loyal when it is favored and cherished.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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The American businessmen, as a class, have demonstrated the greatest productive genius and the most spectacular achievements ever recorded in the economic history of mankind.…
— Ayn Rand
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When one realizes God, He grants knowledge and illumination from within; one knows it oneself. In the fullness of one's spiritual realization one will find…
— Sarada Devi
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The Jewish question exists wherever the Jews live, however small their number. Where it does not exist it is imported by Jew immigrants. We naturally…
— Theodor Herzl
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I think there's an awful lot of noise about the Church being persecuted but there is a more real issue that the conventional churches face…
— Trevor Phillips
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We live in a world where no one believes. Enlightenment and knowledge are laughed at. Those who seek and teach the mysteries are scorned and…
— Frederick Lenz
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Spiritual people are often persecuted because of their beliefs. Christians were fed to the lions. Jews were slaughtered in concentration camps. Various forms of persecution…
— Frederick Lenz
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