If you are going to walk with Jesus Christ, you are going to be opposed.... In our days, to be a true Christian is really to become a scandal.

I'm the only English thing they can vent their anger on.

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

His fruit is but such as grows upon the stony ground, but stay till the sun of persecution arise and scorch him.

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

But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him a little of the disgust which his personality excites in ourselves.