I finished The Insanity of God a couple days ago - such a great book about the persecuted church.

"Stoyan stared back at me and said "Son, that's the debt of the Cross. I took great joy that I was suffering in my country, so you could be free to witness in your country."
Then he raised his voice in a way that would live with me forever:
"Don't ever give up in freedom what we would have never given up in persecution! And that is our witness to the power of the resurrection of Jesus Christ!"