Persecution Quotes

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Let us not forget: we are a pilgrim church, subject to misun

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.

Oscar A. Romero

Love Christianity Church Persecution Pilgrim

The God of Peace, the God of Truth will shortly seal this tr

The God of Peace, the God of Truth will shortly seal this truth, and confirm this witness, and make it evident to the whole world, that the doctrine of persecution for cause of conscience, is most evidently and lamentably contrary to the doctrine of Christ Jesus the Prince of Peace. Amen.

Roger Williams (theologian)

Truth Peace Conscience Persecution Worldpeace

Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an exc

Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.

Bertrand Russell

Love Religion Persecution

When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman

When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even of a very remarkable man who had a mother, then I think we are on the track of a lost novelist, a suppressed poet, of some mute and inglorious Jane Austen, some Emily Bronte who dashed her brains out on the moor or mopped and mowed about the highways crazed with the torture that her gift had put her to.

Feminism Women History Dignity Empowerment Gender Witches Misogyny Persecution Social Norms Suppression Anonymous Authorship

Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the w

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.

Innovation Ignorance Persecution Conformism Disregard Reformers Trailblazers

Persecution is precious because it reveal whether a person l

Persecution is precious because it reveal whether a person lives with real faith.

Faith Persecution