Quotes about Persecution

A 100 years from now the consequences for standing for Jesus will be greater than the consequences of not standing for Jesus today.

If Marx was alive during the Stalinist period, he'd be first to be in the gulag.

More Christian blood has been shed by Christians than by heathens and Mohammedans.

To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men.

Though poor in this world's goods, though grieving the loss of loved ones, though suffering pain of body, though harassed by sin and Satan, though hated and persecuted by worldlings, whatever be the case and lot of the Christian, it is both his privilege and duty to rejoice in the Lord.

The first persecution of the Church took place in the year 67, under Nero, the sixth emperor of Rome.

Our country is a nation of immigrants, who, for centuries, have come here, fleeing persecution, bringing their dreams, their fears, and their hopes for a better life.

A mob is a society of bodies voluntarily bereaving themselves of reason, and traversing its work. The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. Its fit hour of activity is night. Its actions are insane like its whole constitution; it persecutes a principle; it would whip a right; it would tar and feather justice, by inflicting fire and outrage upon the houses and persons of those who have these.

What we have assumed about Heaven has reduced it to a place we look forward to only as an alternative to an intolerable existence here on the present Earth. Only the elderly, disabled, suffering, and persecuted might desire the Heaven we imagine. But the Bible portrays life in God's presence, in our resurrected bodies in a resurrected universe, as so exciting and compelling that even the youngest and healthiest of us should daydream about it.

One hundred percent of royalties from Safely Home go to help persecuted Christians and to spread the gospel in their countries.

This song is called 'To Be a Martyr for the Lord.' It's very popular in house churches.

You haven't got a chance kid,' he had told him glumly.'They hate Jews.' 'But I'm not Jewish,' answered Clevinger. 'It will make no difference,' Yossarian promised, and Yossarian was right. 'They're after everybody.