Venerate the martyrs, praise, love, proclaim, honor them. But worship the God of the martyrs. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I have read somewhere that in a totalitarian system martyrdom does better than thought. — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
“Bullets only kill the body, not the being. The being lives, so long as the cause lives.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
No human beings are more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
I do believe that ideas ripen quickly when nourished by the blood of martyrs. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The world would use us just as it did the martyrs, if we loved God as they did. — Thomas F. Wilson Copy Share Image
This is a particular thing, you know, catholic stories of martyrs who had their head removed and then continued to be miraculous… — Black Francis Copy Share Image
Strange, (is it not?) that battles, martyrs, blood, even assassination should so condense - perhaps only really lastingly condense - a Nationality. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I'm not a martyr, just a musician who dies for your sins. Oh, that's what a martyr is? Very well then, I… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
The hocus-pocus phantasm of a God, like another Cerberus, with one body and three heads, had its birth and growth in the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Martyrs and persecutors are the same type of man. As to which is the persecutor and which the martyr, this is only… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
If ye keep watch over your hearts, and listen for the Voice of God and learn of Him, in one short hour… — Johannes Tauler Copy Share Image
We must acknowledge that for scores of years the Iraqis have offered martyrs and victims but have not been able to change… — Jalal Talabani Copy Share Image
In all times, and all countries especially in those countries which are divided within by religious faith, there are always fanatics who… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
[W]hen the martyr's righteous forebrain is exploded by the executioner's bullet and his mind disintegrates, what then? Can we safely assume that… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Consider the pains which martyrs have endured, and think how even now many people are bearing afflictions beyond all measure greater than… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars; martyrs have put on their coronation… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
On my license, it says I'm an organ donor, but the truth is I'd consider being an organ martyr. I'm sure I'm… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
We're Catholics before we're Democrats. We're Catholics before we're Republicans. We're even Catholics before we're Americans, because we know that God has… — Charles J. Chaput Copy Share Image
A vision is something worth living for, and it is something worth dying for. In fact, if it is not worth dying… — Phil Pringle Copy Share Image
My own dear mother was a martyr indeed, and it is not to everybody that God grants so easy a way to… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
The best of men are only men at their very best. Patriarchs, prophets, and apostles, - martyrs, fathers, reformers, puritans, - all… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
The agony of martyrdom is almost too much to bear. In the early hours, when the loss is fresh, there is no… — David Ebershoff Copy Share Image
“Inciting Justice by Stewart Stafford They stretched his neck out, On the noose of his ancestors, Bloodied and tattered, he died, No… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
“Homecoming Sonnet Salutations to all, today is my homecoming, To dwell in grief is treachery on life. I sought plenty escape in… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
If you were to go, and hopefully someday you will, you would see a lot of paintings of dead people. You'd see… — John Green Copy Share Image
Destroy everything. That's all well and fine, but you got to offer something in it's place. Since I always have a point… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
Women are taught that their main goal in life is to serve others--first men, and later, children. This prescription leads to enormous… — Jean Baker Miller Copy Share Image
The disciples had nothing to gain by lying and starting a new religion. They faced hardship, ridicule, hostility, and martyr's deaths. In… — J.P. Moreland Copy Share Image
Their example testifies that Baptism commits Christians to participating courageously in the spreading of the Kingdom of God, if need be cooperating… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image