Persecution Quotes

278 Persecution quotes by 233 unique authors

We don't want sympathetic liberals, we want gays to represent gays... I represent the gay street people-the 14-year-old runaway from San Antonio. We have to… — Harvey Milk
Jesus himself, and most of the message of the Gospels, is a message of service to the poor, a critique of the rich and the… — Noam Chomsky
Our brothers and sisters in Muslim countries can't celebrate Christmas-or any aspect of their faith-openly for fear of persecution and death. And yet we, with… — Erwin W. Lutzer
Let me say to you, that many of you will see the time when you will have all the trouble, trial and persecution that you… — Heber C. Kimball
There have been times I almost got a persecution complex. I felt like people wouldn't let me grow up. They always saw me as a… — Ricky Schroder
When you prevent me from doing anything I want to do, that is persecution; when I prevent you from doing anything you want to do,… — George Bernard Shaw
A spirit of thankfulness is one of the most distinctive marks of a Christian whose heart is attuned to the Lord. Thank God in the… — Billy Graham
In countries where people have to flee their homes because of persecution and violence, political solutions must be found, peace and tolerance restored, so that… — Angelina Jolie
Fanaticism is the child of false zeal and of superstition, the father of intolerance and of persecution. — John William Fletcher
Why would the apostles lie?....Liars always lie for selfish reasons. If they lied, what was their motive, what did they get out of it? What… — Peter Kreeft
Somewhere along the line we started misinterpreting the First Amendment and this idea of the freedom of speech the amendment grants us. We are free… — Roxane Gay
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. These radicals are… — Chad Griffin
You mark my words, and it won’t be long ... when persecution begins in this country [USA], and it strips everything from you, and most… — Paul Washer
The first persecution of the Church took place in the year 67, under Nero, the sixth emperor of Rome. — John Foxe
Wherever you see persecution, there is more than a probability that truth lies on the persecuted side. — Hugh Latimer
Persecution has never hurt the church ... only prosperity. — Paul Washer
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
Let us pray for the many Christians in the world who still suffer persecution and violence. May God grant them the courage of fidelity. — Pope Francis
And at home in the United States we found continued and increased persecution, first of leaders of the Communist Party, and then of all honest… — Paul Robeson
...I couldn't but surmise that the devil, looking at the cruel wars that Christianity has occasioned, the persecutions, the tortures Christian has inflicted on Christian,… — W. Somerset Maugham
The way in which the persecution of Galileo has been remembered is a tribute to the quiet commencement of the most intimate change in outlook… — Alfred North Whitehead
Missionaries never give up on their dream of peace, even when they experience difficulties and persecution, which makes their presence strongly felt today. — Pope Francis
If God wanted to forgive our sins, why not just forgive them, without having himself tortured and executed in payment-thereby, incidentally, condemning remote future generations… — Richard Dawkins
It has often been found that profuse expenditures, heavy taxation, absurd commercial restrictions, corrupt tribunals, disastrous wars, seditions, persecutions, conflagrations, inundation, have not been able… — Thomas B. Macaulay
The Lord challenges us to suffer persecutions and to confess Him. He wants thiose who belong to him to be brave and fearless. He himself… — Tertullian

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