I believe that pluralistic secularism, in the long run, is a more deadly poison than straightforward persecution.

Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.

Christianity is the greatest intellectual system the mind of man has ever touched.

The inward area is the first place of loss of true Christian life, of true spirituality, and the outward sinful act is the result.

Christianity provides a unified answer for the whole of life.

I have come to the conclusion that none of us in our generation feels as guilty about sin as we should or as our forefathers did.

In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.

I believe that pluralistic secularism, in the long run, is a more deadly poison than straightforward persecution.

Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but only as a starting point to go on into a living relationship - and not as ends in themselves.

Each generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the gospel in understandable terms, considering the language and thought-forms of that setting.

Truth carries with it confrontation. Truth demands confrontation loving confrontation but confrontation nevertheless.

Reformation is a return to the sound doctrine of the Bible. Revival is the practice of that sound doctrine under the power of the Holy Spirit.

Thank God for the reality for which we were created, a moment-by-moment communication with God himself.

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

The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.

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.

I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

And at home in the United States we found continued and increased persecution, first of leaders of the Communist Party, and then of all honest anti-fascists.

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.

Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.

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

Government "help" to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.

I believe that pluralistic secularism, in the long run, is a more deadly poison than straightforward persecution.

Jews have suffered persecution from misguided Christians who tortured the Jews for their part in killing Christ. These Christians forgot that Christ died because of the sins of all men.

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.

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.

To show a 'well-founded fear of persecution,' an alien need not prove that it is more likely than not that he or she will be persecuted in his or her home country.

Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.

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

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

In 1933, the Nazis came to power and the more systematic persecution of the Jews followed quickly. Laws were enacted which excluded Jewish children from higher education in public schools.

Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue.

When the Jewish people, after nearly 2,000 years of exile, under relentless persecution, became a nation again on 14 May 1948 the 'fig tree' put forth its first leaves. Jesus said that this would indicate that He was 'at the door,' ready to return.

The white people of the South are the greatest minority in this nation. They deserve consideration and understanding instead of the persecution of twisted propaganda.

The advancement of all sciences, especially where there has been such a radical change, have been attended with persecution.

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.

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.

And in times and places where there was not much persecution, people could become and continue Christians who neither were nor professed to be very devoted persons.

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.

The causes of the China Incident were the exclusion and insult of Japan throughout China, the exclusion of Japanese goods, the persecution of Japanese residents in China, and the illegal violation of Japanese rights.