Persecution Quotes
Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
Only believe, don't fear. Our Master, Jesus, always watches over us, and no matter what the persecution, Jesus will surely overcome it.
The emigrants although of different parties and different religious sects all flew from persecution in pursuit of liberty.
The first persecution of the Church took place in the year 67, under Nero, the sixth emperor of Rome.
Religious and racial persecution is moronic at all times, perhaps the most idiotic of human stupidities.
Bigotrys birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for the persecution and oppression of other human beings.
We are the new "barbarians", forged in iron hardness in the fires of their hate and persecution. All over the world, we wait to pounce.
Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
Today, the greatest challenge facing American evangelicals is not persecution from the world, but seduction by the world.
In 1933, the Nazis came to power and the more systematic persecution of the Jews followed quickly. Laws were enacted which excluded Jewish children from higher education in public schools.
Religious tolerance is something we should all practice; however, there have been more persecution and atrocities committed in the name of religion and religious freedom than anything else.
Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.
I believe that pluralistic secularism, in the long run, is a more deadly poison than straightforward persecution.
The white people of the South are the greatest minority in this nation. They deserve consideration and understanding instead of the persecution of twisted propaganda.
Racism remains in the eyes of history ... merely another instance of the persecution of minorities for the advantage of those in power.
If one fears men much he will never do anything great for God: all that one does for God arouses persecution.
It is evil things that we will be fighting against-brute force, bad faith, injustice, oppression and persecution-and against them I am certain that the right will prevail.
... happily the Government of the United States... gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance.
Iran's continued, widespread persecution of ethnic minorities, human rights defenders and political prisoners is a disgrace and stands as a shameful indictment of Iran's leaders.
If I had not been discriminated against or had not suffered persecution, I would never have received the Nobel Prize.
I beg you be persuaded that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of spiritual tyranny, and every species of religious persecution.
Wherever you observe persecution, there is more than a probability that truth lies on il the persecuted side.
Laughter, ridicule, opposition, persecution, are often the only reward which Christ's followers get from the world.
Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories.
The promise to the Church is a promise of persecution, if faithful in this world, but a promise of a great inheritance and reward hereafter.
If you live in such a manner as to stand the test of the last judgment, you can depend upon it that the world will not speak well of you.
Persecution on racial and religious grounds has absolutely no place in a nation given over to liberty.
Nevertheless, to the persecution and tyranny of his cruel ministry we will not tamely submit - appealing to Heaven for the justice of our cause, we determine to die or be free . . . .
If any religion allows the persecution of the people of different faiths, if any religion keeps women in slavery, if any religion keeps people in ignorance, then I can't accept that religion.
September 11 was a godsend for Israel. It could now conjoin its merciless persecution of the Palestinians with Bush's War against Terror. But my impression is that it wasn't altogether successful.
I propose that the phenomenon of love is the psychological pivot in the persecution of women.
The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.
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 its own book of martyrs.
The advancement of all sciences, especially where there has been such a radical change, have been attended with persecution.
It would be a godsend if the Church would suffer persecution today; she hasn't suffered it for hundreds of years. She is growing rich and lagging behind. Going back.
Let us not forget: we are a pilgrim church, subject to misunderstanding, to persecution, but a church that walks serene, because it bears the force of love.
Women sometimes seem to share a quiet, unalterable dogma of persecution that endows even the most sophisticated of them with the inarticulate poignancy of the peasant.
That is good. It is a law of nature. That is the way with all founders of religion. Without persecution superior ideas cannot penetrate into the heart of society.
... social evils are dangerously contagious. The fixed policy of persecution and injustice against a class of women who are weak and defenseless will be necessarily hurtful to the cause of all women.
If power corrupts, the reverse is also true; persecution corrupts the victims though perhaps in subtler and more tragic ways.
We come to the nations pretending to escape persecution, we the most deadly persecutors in all the wretched annals of man.
Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.
Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God's chosen.
The sole purpose and effect of it is to exclude persecution and to secure the important right of religious liberty.
Beware of that profound enemy of the free enterprise system who pays lip-service to free competition, but also labels every antitrust prosecution as a persecution.
All persecution is a sign of fear; for if we did not fear the power of an opinion different from our own, we should not mind others holding it.
Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows.
