Pastoral Resources

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked.

Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.

Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.

Even in November 1938, after five years of anti-Semitic legislation and persecution, they still owned, according to the Times correspondent in Berlin, something like a third of the real property in the Reich.

Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.

Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.

Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution.

Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.

Jewish persecution is a historical memory of the present generation and people fear it in the present day, and that's why those references are so much more powerful. I just understand that better now.

Stereotypes involving Christian identity, Christian persecution is so far back in history now that no one fears it being revived, unless you live in China, I guess.

I think the thing that I most appreciate now is that stereotypes involving Jewish identity activate fears of persecution that exist in the present day.

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

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

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

War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.

All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs.

In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.

Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it.

Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.