Top 33 Church Persecution Quotes
#1. One would think that [persecution] would be an obstacle to church growth when joining the church meant a death sentence. And yet, the age of persecution was the greatest period of church growth in history.
Gene Veith
#2. You have to love life to have life, and you need to have life to love life
Thornton Wilder
#3. Persecution has never hurt the church ... only prosperity.
Paul Washer
#4. I'm very lucky to have such a beautiful family.
Bindi Irwin
#5. The crowds were just crying out, "Crucify him, crucify him" with unified rage and intent. And in the backdrop of this rejection of the Son of God, the New Testament Church was beginning to form and write letters to encourage each other in the faith.
Greg Gordon
#6. Christians well know that the much-decorated statue of the Church, as it now stands, is not of pure chiseled marble, but of clay, cemented together by blood and tears and hardened in the fires of hatred and persecution.
Virchand Gandhi
#7. A greater persecution shall befall the Christian Church than has ever been in Africa, and will last until the year 1792, when there will be a revision of centuries.
Nostradamus
#8. Of course it's dangerous. But it's a lot more dangerous for all of us if we don't do it. Even in a conquering army there are casualties. Safety is not the issue when we look at the Great Commission. The purpose of the church cannot be to survive, or even to thrive, but to serve.
Brother Andrew
#9. 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 A. Romero
#10. 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
#11. God's church is a Bible-centered church, and it grows strong under persecution.
Billy Graham
#12. I went to church every Sunday ... I understood Christmas and what Easter was about. I understood the persecution of Christ, the crucifixion of Christ, the Resurrection of Christ. I understood all that but I have to say that beyond that ... for me, my knowledge after that was quite vague.
Juan Pablo Di Pace
#13. Until the Second Coming, sin will remain a part of earthly existence. And as long as there is sin, there will be suffering and pain. But suffering by persecution is not a sine qua non of the church. If it is, there are few if any true churches in North America today.
Keith A. Mathison
#14. When the church encounters hardship, persecution, and suffering, then it is closest to its crucified Lord. Then there are fewer hypocrites and nominal believers among its members, and then the faith of Christians burns most intensely.
Gene Veith
#15. You mark my words, and it won't be long ... when persecution begins in this country [USA], and it strips everything from you, and most of the evangelical church goes totally apostate, and little groups are left to be berated, THEN you will see that Christ is enough.
Paul Washer
#16. Trust me about one thing, Liv ... whatever is going on between us, it's going to happen. You can make it as difficult as you want, but we, Liv, are going to happen. Neither one of us can stop it.
Vi Keeland
#17. The actual point in question, throughout the centuries of Christian persecution, has never been faith in God, but faith in the Bible as the word of God, and in the Church (this Church or that) as the interpreter of that word.
Joseph Campbell
#18. The bus driver gave me a why-the-hell-aren't-you-at-school look and I gave him a shut-up-you're-a-bus-driver-so-bus-drive look right back.
Daniel Handler
#19. The promise to the Church is a promise of persecution, if faithful in this world, but a promise of a great inheritance and reward hereafter.
C.I. Scofield
#20. It would be a godsend if the Church would suffer persecution today; she hasn't suffered it for hundreds of years. She is growing rich and lagging behind. Going back.
Billy Sunday
#21. A state which which includes within itself a terrorized Church has lost its most faithful servant.
Eric Metaxas
#22. To put the issue bluntly, are the Beatitudes true? If so, why doesn't the church encourage poverty and mourning and meekness and persecution instead of striving against them? What is the real meaning of the Beatitudes, this cryptic ethical core of Jesus' teaching?
Philip Yancey
#23. They strain over gnats and swallow camels. They also cannibalize each other for power.
Mike Duran
#24. The early Church was birthed and sustained in almost constant persecution and pressures
Greg Gordon
#25. Persecution is the heirloom of the church, and the ensign of the elect.
Charles Spurgeon
#27. Persecution is an enemy the Church has met and mastered many times. Indifference could prove to be a far more dangerous foe.
Brother Andrew
#28. The first persecution of the Church took place in the year 67, under Nero, the sixth emperor of Rome.
John Foxe
#29. The church should not be pampered but rather prepare for, and expect, persecution - for it is Christ's body on earth.
Billy Graham
#30. The evolutionist thesis has become more stringently unthinkable than ever before.
Wolfgang Smith
#31. [The Drafters of the Constitution] were intent on avoiding more than 100 years of religious intolerance and persecution in American colonial history and an even longer heritage of church-state problems in Europe.
John M Swomley
#32. The church that took two thousand years to build in Iraq and Syria, started by the apostles themselves, has nearly been destroyed in the blink of an eye at the hands of manics who won't stop until they win or they die. At least that's what everyone I met in Iraq believes. Every single one of them.
Johnnie Moore
#33. As humanism begins to dominate the state, the consequence is complete hostile annexation of the church or persecution by separation. Religion is then removed from the marketplace and the school, later from other domains of public life. The state will not toerlate any gods besides itself.
Erik Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
