Quotes About Persecution

I know from experience, dear friends, if you're going to walk in health, you're going to have to walk in love and pray for those who persecute you and despitefully use you. Pray for them: That's the best way in the world to overcome the problem.

You've been marked and labeled in the spiritual world just by virtue of your birth. If you claim the family name of Christian, you are being hunted to be destroyed.

Hypocrisy will serve as well To propagate a church as zeal; As persecution and promotion Do equally advance devotion: So round white stones will serve, they say, As well as eggs, to make hens lay.

Persecution on racial or religious ground has absolutely no place in a nation given over to liberty and which calls itself a democracy.

It is true that there are dreams and single symbols (I should prefer to call them "motifs") that are typical and often occur. Among such motifs are falling, flying, being persecuted by dangerous animals or hostile men, being insufficiently or absurdly clothed in public places, being in a hurry or lost in a milling crowd, fighting with useless weapons or being wholly defenseless, running hard yet getting nowhere.

there is something about these expectations and visions of the last things, that will send them into the light and focus of the consciousness of believers, whenever storms of persecution arise and hard distresses invade.

that crazy Hitler guy in Germany who doesn't want Jewish people to compete in the Olympics.

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

How fearful that dark shadow is when we catch sight of it in the life of another. No wonder those at whom that black arrow is aimed so often turn and flee. How unendurable it can be, the love another bears us. I would never persecute my darling with that dread knowledge. From now onward until the world ended everything must remain, although utterly changed, exactly as it was before.

Wir Juden haben die Völker mit einem ewigen Gott belastet, und darum hassen sie uns.

con la idea tallada a cincel en su mente de que ayudar al perseguido es un deber moral ineludible.

I have probably become a lot more Zionist than I used to be. Jews have a history of being persecuted over a long, long period of time so I think it is absolutely right to have a country that is a Jewish state.

Christians have burned each other, quite persuaded That all the apostles would have done as they did.

The way of the world is to praise dead saints and persecute living ones.

In many places around the world, including Turkey until the 1950s, Muslims didn't have full freedom of religion. Even personal practice was not allowed, and they had to practice in secret.

Erdogan's persecution of his people is not simply a domestic matter. The ongoing pursuit of civil society, journalists, academics and Kurds in Turkey is threatening the long-term stability of the country.

My father has been targeted for persecution by the Turkish government and its leader, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, because of his association with me.

A Protestant has seldom any mercy shown him, and a Jew, who turns Christian, is far from being secure.

Would to God, brethren, I could tell you WHO I am! Would to God I could tell you WHAT I know! But you would call it blasphemy and want to take my life!

September 11 was a godsend for Israel. It could now conjoin its merciless persecution of the Palestinians with Bush's War against Terror. But my impression is that it wasn't altogether successful.

The biggest religious wars and persecutions in history occur when religions, each claiming their own absolute truths, come into conflict.

German poet Heinrich Heine [warned], 'There where one burns books, one in the end burns men.

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Small streams of hatred can quickly lead to unstoppable, horrific things, so [people] should stand up to any type of persecution or discrimination, whether bullying or malicious gossip.