If the world hates you, you know that it hated me before it hated you. . . . If you were of the world, the world would love his own: but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. – Our Lord, in the Gospel According to St. John the Evangelist
These things I have spoken to you that, in me, you might have peace. In the world you shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. – Prayer of Our Lord, in the Gospel According to St. John the Evangelist
The world has hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. I pray not that Thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that Thou shouldest keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. As Thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world. – Prayer of Our Lord, in the Gospel According to St. John the Evangelist