Quotes About Persecution

I came to America,' he said in 1947, 'because of the great, great freedom which I heard existed in this country. I made a mistake in selecting America as a land of freedom, a mistake I cannot repair in the balance of my lifetime.' At the time of his death, the FBI dossier on him had grown to thousands of pages. They contain no evidence that he was ever disloyal.

CHAPTER XXXIII THE BEGINNING OF PERSECUTION

CHAPTER XLIII PERSECUTION

No Catholic in England and Scotland was allowed to buy or inherit land. Exercising the function of a Catholic priest or running a Catholic school were both activities punishable by life imprisonment. Catholics could not receive commissions in the army or navy, or officially be soldiers or sailors. In the same way, Catholics who declared themselves as such could not attend universities, let alone take degrees

It's an old Jewish custom to pick up and go elsewhere at the first mention of a pogrom.

I was only giving expression to a sad reflection that was rising in my mind. Kichijiro was right in saying that all men are not saints and heroes. How many of our Christians, if only they had been born in another age from this persecution would never have been confronted with the problem of apostasy or martyrdom but would have lived blessed lives of faith until the very hour of death.

One recognises that the partisan spirit makes people blind, makes them deaf to justice, pushes even decent men cruelly to persecute innocent targets. One recognises it, and yet nobody suggests getting rid of the organisations that generate such evils.

Hobbes: Do you think there's a God?Calvin: Well, somebody's out to get me!

There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution.

O that we would so love the gospel and have so much compassion for lost people that tribulation and distress and persecution and famine and nakedness and danger and sword and gun and terrorist would turn us not into fearful complainers, but bold heralds of good news.

Once upon a time, there was a safe, private place to take your controversial stand for Jesus. No more. If you are going to stand, you will be shot at—either figuratively or literally.

The problem is not a battle between contemporary worship music and hymns; the problem is that there aren't enough martyrs during the week. If no soldiers are perishing, what you want on Sunday is Bob Hope and some pretty girls, not the army chaplain and a surgeon.

I want you to see persecution and opposition and slander and misunderstanding and disappointment and self-recrimination and weakness and danger as the normal portion of faithful pastoral ministry.

Jesus prophesied that "In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God." (John 16:2)

Christians are being martyred across the globe at alarmingly increasing rates. The 'Voices of the Martyrs' website reveals just how serious this killing of our brothers and sisters in Christ has become.

The Bible also affirms that in the end times God's people will be martyred by beheading. "And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony for Jesus and because of the word of God. They had not worshiped the beast or his image and had not received his mark on their foreheads or their hands." (Revelation 20:4)

God's people will be martyred by beheading. "And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony for Jesus and because of the word of God. They had not worshiped the beast or his image and had not received his mark on their foreheads or their hands." (Revelation 20:4)

Today a Kafir (infidel, non-Muslim believer) living in an Islamic nation can avoid death and physical persecution at the hands of Muslims by paying a Jizyah (poll) tax, annually. However, Muslim Last Day literature provides that once Jesus returns to earth the Jizyah tax will no longer be available, leaving only two options for Christians and Jews: become a Muslim or be decapitated.

Then, when the rapture does come, His people, by then relocated in other nations than their native America, will be alive to be raptured, along with the other believers in the world. Immediately before Jesus returns His people will be on the brink of being slain by those committed to their beheading and death.

As we have just read, the betrayal of Israel is the ultimate reason given in scripture for the destruction of the end times "Mother of Abominations" nation, also labeled the Daughter of Babylon. Scripture discloses to us that this rich, powerful, influential, fallen end times nation will also persecute God's people.

Those whose First and Second Amendment rights are taken from them won't like it and will most likely fight back, leading to the "violence in the land" that Jeremiah describes. These future events will lead, in part, to the government of the Daughter of Babylon's persecution of God's people. One significant result? Many under persecution will flee the nation.

The three future occurrences that scripture tells us we should be expecting and watching for are: 1.) Israel will truly be "at peace" for the first time since its founding in 1948; 2.) The Daughter of Babylon will severely persecute many of God's people; 3.) The Daughter of Babylon will betray Israel, by not coming to its defense when a Russian-Muslim coalition invasion of Israel occurs, causing many in Israel to die.

Of all persecuted sects, the Baptists stand forth as most prominent, simply and only because they aim at a more complete and thorough reform than any others ever attempted. They teach that Christ's kingdom is not of this world; that the church is not a national, political, or provincial establishment; but a congregation of holy men, separated from the world by the receiving of the Holy Spirit.

the way Islamism has infested the political system, again a warning for the Middle East. Perhaps the most striking example is the treatment of the minority Ahmadiyya sect, which finds its parallel in Egypt and Tunisia with the renewed persecution of Jews, Christians, and Sufis there.