“...we should all read and forever remember Revelation 2:10 - here's what I require of you, that you should 'be faithful unto death.”

“Perhaps the question should not be: "Why are other persecuted?" Perhaps the better question is: "Why are we not?”

“He said, "Son, when did you stop reading your Bible? All of our stories are in the Bible. God has already written them down. Why would we bother writing books to tell our stories when God has already told His story. If you would just read the Bible, you would see that our stories are there.”

“Then he raised his voice in a prophet-like challenge that I knew would live with me forever: "Don't ever give up in freedom what we would never give up in persecution!”

“I was captivated by the thought: what if persecution is the normal, expected situation for a believer? And what if persecution is, in fact, soil in which faith can grow?”

“It is crucial to understand that God values our help. But it is more crucial to remember that our all-powerful God is able to work with our without us, that our all-knowing God is not blind to the evil in His world, and that our ever-present God is there...whether we are or not.”

“You can only grow in jail what you take to jail with you. You can only grow in persecution what you take into it.”