Persecution Quotes

“The world must not mistake persecution for prosecution.”

“Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.”

“Everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.”

“Any body of men who believe in hell will persecute whenever they have the power.”

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“Today, as ever, the few are misunderstood, hounded, imprisoned, tortured, and killed.”

“There can be no Good Will. Will is always Evil; it is persecution to others or selfishness.”

“Wikipedia: Persecution”

“Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.”

“To persecute
Makes a faith hated, and is furthermore
No perfect witness of a perfect faith
In him who persecutes.”

“Can we agree that having an irresistible urge to ridicule other people’s beliefs is not generally a sign of good mental health?”

“There is a deplorable tendency of expanding the notion of “human trafficking” beyond its original limits, targeting religious organizations that use unpaid volunteers for their missionary or charitable activities.”

“History shows many examples of persecuted believers who win in the end. Religions tend to last longer than governments, regimes, or their opponents. History is fair, and often gives persecuted believers the last laugh.”

“"The Dreadful Daily Drama of Religious Persecution in China" by Marco Respinti at Bitter Winter (September 2023)”

“The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God. I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do to their fellows, because it always coincides with their own desires.”

“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 the Truth? It is our inner selves that hurt us when we disobey it, and it kills us when we betray it.”

“If a Texas surgeon who rightfully blew the whistle on a child-mutilation program his state outlawed can face politically charged persecution laden with misconduct simply because the Biden administration wants to make a point about people who oppose its radical transgender agenda, no one is safe.”

“The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution, is one of those pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes. History teems with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not suppressed for ever, it may be thrown back for centuries.”

“The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts. He ascribes all his failure to get on in the world, all of his congenital incapacity and damfoolishness, to the machinations of werewolves assembled in Wall Street, or some other such den of infamy.”

“It has become a settled principle that nothing which is good and true can be destroyed by persecution, but that the effect ultimately is to establish more firmly, and to spread more widely, that which it was designed to overthrow. It has long since passed into a proverb that "the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church."”