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“will say this much for the nobility: that, tyrannical, murderous, rapacious, and morally rotten as they were, they were deeply and enthusiastically religious. Nothing…

— Mark Twain

“People were suddenly subject to the curse, which caused them to perform for identity instead of operating out of their identity. This has led…

— Kris Vallotton

“Some pinned the blame on the corruption of the Church, believing that the divine institution's fall from grace had tainted their pleas and prayers…

— Charles River Editors

Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.

— Anonymous

“Their Christian walk was such that it convinced even their most bitter foes of the sincerity and wholeheartedness of their faith and practice. The…

— Willem Teellinck

“Their most notable defect was that they considered work a virtue, even manual labor. They were materialists, conquerors, and they were infused with a…

— Isabel Allende

“And even when they became discontented, as they sometimes did, their discontent led nowhere, because, being without general ideas, they could only focus it…

— George Orwell

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

Since the early days, [the church] has thrown itself violently against every effort to liberate the body and mind of man. It has been,…

— H. L. Mencken

Accompanying the people in their growth through good times and also through their difficulties, accompanying people in their joy and in their bad moments,…

— Pope Francis

That which corrodes the souls of the persecuted is the monstrous inner agreement with the prevailing prejudice against them.

— Eric Hoffer

“Back then, Black churches were a small piece of peace. Church was a world where, even with its imperfections, the offer of equality and…

— Janelle Gray