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Tag Name "Persecution" (197)

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Persecution is the heirloom of the church, and the ensign of the elect.
Charles Spurgeon
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Persecution to persons in a high rank stands them in the stead of eminent virtue.
Jean Francois Paul de Gondi
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Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest.
Frank Moore Colby
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Persecution means an attempt to drive out, attempt to subjugate, and there are various ways that that can be done. Sarah Palin's opponents and her critics would like to see her leave the public square by insulting, degrading, demeaning, abusing and ridiculing her, and - by pretending that she has nothing to say.
Matthew Continetti
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Persecutions are inevitable as a Christian. We are not greater than our Master, Jesus Christ, in whose Holy Spirit we gain strength to endure.
Monica Mcgowan Johnson
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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Persecution is a tribute the great must always pay for preeminence.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Persecution in intellectual countries produces a superficial conformity, but also underneath an intense, incessant, implacable doubt.
Walter Bagehot
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Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.
Frank Moore Colby
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Persecution readily knits friendship between its victims.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Persecution is as necessary to religion as pruning to an orchard.
Austin O'Malley
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Persecution is simply the clash between two irreconcilable value-systems.
John Stott
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Persecution matures young rebels.
Han Suyin
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Persecution has not crushed it, power has not beaten it back, time has not abated its force, and, what is most wonderful of all, the abuses and treasons of its friends have not shaken its stability.
Horace Bushnell
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Persecution for opinion is the master vice of society.
Frances Wright
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Persecution on racial and religious grounds has absolutely no place in a nation given over to liberty.
Nicholas Murray Butler
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Persecution, in short, is like the goldsmith's stamp on real silver and gold - it is one of the marks of a converted man.
J. C. Ryle
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Persecution is the compliment paid by a threatened lie to a conquering truth.
Chapman Cohen
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Persecution is not an original feature in any religion but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.
Thomas Paine
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It appears an extraordinary thing to me, that since there is such a diabolical spirit in the depravity of human nature, as persecution for difference of opinion in religious tenets, there never happened to be any inquisition, any auto da fe, any crusade, among the Pagans.
Laurence Sterne
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Out of this pack-persecution he learned two important things: how to take care of himself in a mass-fight against him and how, on a single dog, to inflict the greatest amount of damage in the briefest space of time.
Jack London
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The whole history of the last thousands of years has been a history of religious persecutions and wars, pogroms, jihads, crusades. I find it all very regrettable, to say the least.
Steven Weinberg
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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 Romero
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In all places, and in all times, those religionists who have believed too much have been more inclined to violence and persecution than those who have believed too little.
Charles Caleb Colton
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