175. “. . . 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 had never given up in persecution. That is our witness to the power of the resurrection of Jesus Christ.’ Those words of Stoyon haunted me on my flight back to the United States. Had I given up in freedom what he and others had refused to surrender up under the worst forms of persecution? Had I?. . .” ~ Nik Ripken