Persecution Quotes

278 Persecution quotes by 233 unique authors

Even as we slog through the trials, persecutions, irritations, temptations, distractions, apathy, and just plain weariness of this world, the gospel points us to heaven… — Greg Gilbert
I support, defend, and admire prostitutes, gay or straight. They do important and necessary work, whether moralists of the Left and Right like it or… — Camille Paglia
Prayer cleanses from sin, drives away temptations, stamps out persecutions, comforts the fainthearted, gives new strength to the courageous, brings travellers safely home, calms the… — Tertullian
Persecution cannot harm him who stands by Truth. Did not Socrates fall proudly a victim in body? Was not Paul stoned for the sake of… — Khalil Gibran
Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter how indifferent in… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The true Church has never sounded out public expectations before launching her mission. Her leaders heard from God, they knew their Lord's will and did… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has… — Richard Le Gallienne
Persecution is a tribute the great must always pay for preeminence. — Oliver Goldsmith
It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless. — James A. Baldwin
Jewish persecution is a historical memory of the present generation and people fear it in the present day, and that's why those references are so… — Gregg Easterbrook
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
Though it is evident, that not more than one age or people can deserve the censure of being more averse from learning than any other,… — Samuel Johnson
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
Popularity has killed more prophets than persecution. — Vance Havner
The challenge of abating one with a genuine ego problem is to not try to put him down. Any and all antagonization, in his mind,… — Criss Jami
[The Drafters of the Constitution] were intent on avoiding more than 100 years of religious intolerance and persecution in American colonial history and an even… — John M Swomley
Systems of religious error have been adopted in times of ignorance. It has been the interest of tyrannical kings, popes, and prelates to maintain these… — Oliver Ellsworth
Among all the religious persecutions with which almost every page of modern history is stained, no victim ever suffered but for violation of what Government… — Richard Mentor Johnson
President Obama understands that, as a nation founded by those who fled religious persecution, freedom of religion is central to who we are as Americans.… — Denis McDonough
Even in November 1938, after five years of anti-Semitic legislation and persecution, they still owned, according to the Times correspondent in Berlin, something like a… — Arthur Bryant
Perhaps the gravest under-publicized atrocity in the world is the persecution of Christians. — Conrad Black
When I was growing up, I, like many Jews, cheered what appeared to be the receding of faith from everyday life. The further religion got… — Bruce Feiler
The whole history of Christianity proves that she has little indeed to fear from persecution as a foe, but much to fear from persecution as… — Thomas B. Macaulay
Christians well know that the much-decorated statue of the Church, as it now stands, is not of pure chiseled marble, but of clay, cemented together… — Virchand Gandhi
I have to say, as someone who is not a Christian, it’s hard for me to believe Christians are a persecuted people in America. God… — Jon Stewart

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