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This country has a proud history of opening its doors to generations of people fleeing personal persecution, civil unrest and war. — Charles Kennedy

People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the world lasts. — Dorothy L. Sayers

Persecution is the compliment paid by a threatened lie to a conquering truth. — Chapman Cohen

If the Tiber rises too high, or the Nile too low, the remedy is always feeding Christians to the lions. — Tertullian

Galileo probably would have escaped persecution if his discoveries could have been disproved. — Richard Whately

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

Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution. — Bill Condon

The devil is the initiator of persecution — Sunday Adelaja

Yes great people are always subject to persecution and always getting into straits. — Friedrich Schiller

I'd hate to find out that the universe really wasn't conspiring against me. It would jerk the rug out from under my persecution complex. — Jim Butcher

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know. — George Eliot

CHAPTER XLIII PERSECUTION — Anthony Trollope

Knowing that God is backing up our words and actions makes us strong, firm and courageous in any trial or persecution — Sunday Adelaja

We can take persecution because we know the purpose behind it. The purpose is to glorify God. — Billy Graham

Happily the Government of the United States ... gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance. — George Washington

The more you cry today, the more stronger and happier you'll be tomorrow. — Michael Bassey Johnson

The time of persecution and opposition is a time of cleansing — Sunday Adelaja

Suspicion and persecution are weeds of the same dunghill, and flourish best together. — Thomas Paine

Persecution has never hurt the church ... only prosperity. — Paul Washer

Not everything that offends us should offend us, and not everything that offends us is persecution. — Russell D. Moore

One with God is always a majority. But many have been burned at the stake while the boats were being counted. Thomas Reed — H.W. Brands

The Bible clearly says that faithfulness and persecution often go hand in hand. — Billy Graham

Perhaps the gravest under-publicized atrocity in the world is the persecution of Christians. — Conrad Black

Persecution is the heirloom of the church, and the ensign of the elect. — Charles Spurgeon

Persecution readily knits friendship between its victims. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The spirit of religious persecution is not the special failing of any particular faith, but springs eternal in the human breast. — Dion Fortune

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution. — George Eliot

Thing about witches; we're a paranoid lot. Call it a side effect of living in a world obsessed with seeing you burn. — Laura Oliva

Wherever you see persecution, there is more than a probability that truth lies on the persecuted side. — Hugh Latimer

Christ didn't join in. He saw which direction the rocks were being thrown, and became a shield. — Criss Jami

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. — Phyllis Bottome

Banker-bashing: Should it not fall into the same category as bullying, persecution, racism and sexism? — Przemek Skwirczynski

When you face tests and persecution don't complain, but remember that everything works together for good for those who love God — Sunday Adelaja

Whenever the clergy were at the elbow of the civil arm, no matter whether they were Catholic or Protestant, persecution was the result. — William Edward Hartpole Lecky

Persecution inspires men who otherwise would have remained dormant. As pain whips the painter, his brush whips the canvas. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Persecution is a tribute the great must always pay for preeminence. — Oliver Goldsmith

We come to the nations pretending to escape persecution, we the most deadly persecutors in all the wretched annals of man. — Samuel Roth

Britain has always been a home to the vulnerable, and we've always done what we need to do to help people who are fleeing persecution. — George Osborne

The persecution of genius fosters its influence. — Tacitus

Persecution has not stopped the progress of truth, but has only added fuel to the flame, — Joseph Smith Jr.

If you are going to walk with Jesus Christ, you are going to be opposed ... In our days, to be a true Christian is really to become a scandal. — George Whitefield

...our history, the history of European Jews...they will never forgive us for the evil they've done to us — Marceline Loridan-Ivens

Eugene Debs entered jail a moderate Unionist and emerged a Socialist. — H.W. Brands

Persecution shows who is a hireling, and who a true pastor. — Bernard Of Clairvaux

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 itself. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Persecution is an enemy the Church has met and mastered many times. Indifference could prove to be a far more dangerous foe. — Brother Andrew

Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation. — Hosea Ballou

Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories. — Alice Walker

When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Today, the greatest challenge facing American evangelicals is not persecution from the world, but seduction by the world. — C.J. Mahaney

Jamming was our ally. It made people curious about what we were hiding. — Mark Kurlansky

As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism. — Antonia Fraser

Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic, because in arithmetic there is knowledge, but in theology there is only opinion. — Bertrand Russell

Not being allowed to persecute someone else in the name of your religion does NOT equate to religious persecution. — Christina Engela

The early Church was birthed and sustained in almost constant persecution and pressures — Greg Gordon

No person with a sense of the dignity of mankind can condone the persecution of the Jewish race in Germany. — Charles Lindbergh

Our good qualities expose us more to hatred and persecution than all the ill we do. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

They strain over gnats and swallow camels. They also cannibalize each other for power. — Mike Duran

Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety. — Edmund Burke

Persecution comes from people who are prejudiced. — Harper Lee

The victims of persecution had now turned persecutors on their own account, — Arthur Conan Doyle

Prejudice is a disease. And when they come for you, or refuse your worth, I will be ready for their stones. I belong to you. — Lady Gaga

Racism remains in the eyes of history ... merely another instance of the persecution of minorities for the advantage of those in power. — Ruth Benedict

Persecution on racial and religious grounds has absolutely no place in a nation given over to liberty. — Nicholas Murray Butler

[Angels] guide, comfort, and provide for the people of God in the midst of suffering and persecution. — Billy Graham

intelligence, its tenets those of division, regression, hatred, violence and persecution. In — Stefan Zweig

Persecution is as necessary to religion as pruning to an orchard. — Austin O'Malley

Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plan religion. — Thomas Browne

Churches thrive on martyrdom and persecution. — Robert A. Heinlein

Our nearness to the king in love is nearness to those who love not the king. — William Shakespeare

From the fires of persecution, can come sparks of light. — Tom Althouse

Our psychological and spiritual vigilance is very important during a time of persecution — Sunday Adelaja

The advancement of all sciences, especially where there has been such a radical change, have been attended with persecution. — Daniel D. Palmer

You can easily see why the experience of Jews would be helpful if you're looking to get action on religious persecution. — Elliott Abrams

Great minds with great ideas usually share in the midst of their persecution — Jeremy Aldana

The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God. — Susan B. Anthony

Fanaticism is the child of false zeal and of superstition, the father of intolerance and of persecution. — John William Fletcher

With every blessing comes temptation, tests and persecution — Sunday Adelaja

without fighting back. The persecution of the Jews — Miklos Nyiszli

Religious and racial persecution is moronic at all times, perhaps the most idiotic of human stupidities. — Harry S. Truman

Popularity has killed more prophets than persecution. — Vance Havner

I'm the only English thing they can vent their anger on. — Harold Holzer

Persecution to persons in a high rank stands them in the stead of eminent virtue. — Jean Francois Paul De Gondi

It is unjust, but only Christlike, to suffer persecution for doing what is right. — Joyce Rachelle

God's church is a Bible-centered church, and it grows strong under persecution. — Billy Graham

Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution. — William Butler Yeats

How terrible is the pain of the mind and heart when the freedom of mankind is suppressed! — E.A. Bucchianeri

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 an ally. — Thomas B. Macaulay

Persecution is not wrong because it is cruel; but it is cruel because it is wrong. — Richard Whately

Persecution, like fire, burns up the weak elements (wood and hay) but actually purifies the strong ones (silver and gold). It — Jefferson Bethke

Joseph Smith was true to his calling and fulfilled his duty even in the face of severe persecution and great personal sacrifice. — Joseph B. Wirthlin

Where religion is trivialized, one is unlikely to find persecution. — Charles Krauthammer

Silence is the greatest persecution; never do the saints keep themselves silent. — Blaise Pascal

Be of good comfort, Mr. Ridley, and play the man! We shall this day light such a candle by God's grace, in England, as I trust never shall be put out. — Hugh Latimer

Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law. — Thomas Paine

Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue. — Charles Simmons

If we are not receiving some type of ridicule for our beliefs, we are probably doing something wrong. — Dillon Burroughs

Persecution of Christians is growing around the world, and Congress needs to pay more attention to it. — Elliott Abrams

I think if you come from a history of persecution you have to develop a sense of humour. — Sacha Baron Cohen