"Sufferings must be the Churches most ordinary lot, and Christians indeed must be self-denying Cross-bearers, even where there are none but formal nominal Christians to be the Cross-makers."
Richard Baxter

"So, if you are a Christian looking for an easy ministry in a post-Christian culture where Christians are a minority, you are unrealistic in your outlook. It was not to be so in Jeremiah's day, and it cannot be so in ours."
Francis Schaeffer

"The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church."
Tertullian, 1st century AD

"To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men."
A. W. Tozer

"What makes you think that you will walk in victory when facing death if you can't walk in obedience in life... If you can't live for Him, don't fool yourself into thinking you will die for Him."
Dennis E. Green

"Have you ever noticed that Foxes Book of Martyrs doesn't list those who die of heart attacks while sitting in a pew?"
Dennis E. Green