“In how many, many ways have the persecutors of Christians thought to themselves that they were done with Christianity for good. In fact, it was their lives that were finished, while Christianity sprouted and flowered anew. Still, even in the face of this experience, some of our contemporaries reckon that the Christian faith can be uprooted forcibly. But they do not say how. And they forget that this has already been attempted countless times without success. It was with reason that Tertullian cried to the pagans, “You are spilling our blood in vain; the blood of the martyrs is the seed of Christianity!”
Saint Nikolai Velimirovic
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