Christendom Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Blessed are they who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. -Matthew 5:10

— Bible

So great are the effectiveness and power of the Word of God that the more it is persecuted the more it flourishes and grows.

— Martin Luther

“It strikes me as unChristian that we often have more charitable attitudes toward ideological allies than we do toward brothers and sisters in Christ…

— David Kinnaman

Only a country that is based upon an extremely primitive religion, which is Christianity, I am a devoted enemy of monotheism in all of…

— Gore Vidal

My aim is to lay bare and proclaim the crying and horrible guilt of the bloody doctrine of persecution as one of the most…

— Roger Williams

My work in Africa was paid for mostly by American Christians, and I am so thankful for their giving hearts.

— Reinhard Bonnke

I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ; I therefore hatethe corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial, and hypocritical Christianity of this land.…

— Frederick Douglass

No one will be offended if we tell them that they are good people who could be a little better. The offense comes when…

— Michael Horton

The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence.

— John Clayton

I like their Christ, but I don't like their Christians.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“So many of those who take Christ into the world, whether it be it's missionaries or artists, are tied by those who look over…

— Steve Stockman

For us in the Pacific, in Asia, in India, and in Africa, Christian unity is not an optional extra. It is an urgent necessity,…

— John Vockler