Take Up Your Cross

The world would not hate angels for being angelic, but it does hate men for being Christians. It grudges them their new character; it is tormented by their peace; it is infuriated by their joy. ---- William Temple

Brother will deliver brother over to death, and the father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death, and you will be hated by all for my name's sake(Matthew 10:19).

Blessed are you when people hate you and when they exclude you and revile you and spurn your name as evil, on account of the Son of Man! Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven... (Luke 6:22-23).

If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you (John 15:18-19). 

For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed (John 3:20).

A hymn to read, sing, hum, or whistle to the glory of God: "Take Up Your Cross," the Savior Said. Take up your cross, then, in His strength, and calmly sin's wild deluge brave; 'twill guide you to a better home, it points to glory o'er the grave.- Charles W. Everest, 1833.