“Gorky called for the building of a monument to the young martyr, who, the writer said, had ‘understood that a relative by… — Orlando Figes Copy Share Image
I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion-- I have shuddered at it, I shudder no more. I… — John Keats Copy Share Image
What can my enemies do to me? My paradise is in my heart, it is with me wherever I go. To imprison… — Ibn Taymiyyah Copy Share Image
Adaptation to one's environment makes for a sort of survival; but after all, the supreme victory is only won by those who… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
O, because I have had only that kind of benevolence which consists in lying on a sofa, and cursing the church and… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
I am telling you before anything, that the blood of the martyrs and the injured will not go in vain. And I… — Hosni Mubarak Copy Share Image
If, as we have said, we commemorate each of the saints with hymns and appropriate songs of praise, how much more should… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
No true Christian can carry within his heart hatred for any of God's children . . . I am as aware as… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
Justin's testimony about becoming a Christian is that he had been searching various philosophical traditions of the time, and then accidentally encountered… — Larry Hurtado Copy Share Image
Sensibility appears to me to be neither good nor evil in itself, but in its application. Under the influence of Christian principle,… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
The day of the march, we were forbidden to go to the march site. The man I worked for, the Presbyterian minister,… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
“Saintliness is very odd. When people encounter it, they often take it for something else, something completely unlike it: indifference, mockery, scheming,… — Philippe Claudel Copy Share Image
For me getting paid for art is a class issue. I don't have the luxury not to care. It's great if your… — Nicole Georges Copy Share Image
As it stands, motherhood is a sort of wilderness through which each woman hacks her way, part martyr, part pioneer; a turn… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
Sometimes we esteem others more important than ourselves. We always become the martyr. It is wonderful to be self-sacrificing, but watch out… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I am startled by how resistant people are to doing anything nice or nurturing for themselves, especially women. They fear being selfish.… — Annette Vaillancourt Copy Share Image
A very few, as heroes, patriots, martyrs, reformers in the great sense, and men, serve the state with their conscience also, and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If you outlaw half a million people you make martyrs of them. For example, if you outlaw Robin Hood, it is all… — Baldur von Schirach Copy Share Image
The measure of woman's distaste for any part of her life lies not in the loudness of her lamentations (these are only… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
His head was boiled, impaled upon a pole and raised above London Bridge. So ended the life of Thomas More, one of… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
That night, I asked the Mother of God what was to become of me, a Child of Faith. Then she came to… — Maximilian Kolbe Copy Share Image
No matter what anyone says, suicide takes guts. It's for heroes and martyrs, truly vainglorious men. Archie was none of these. He… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Jesus did not come to live as an example of how to die as a martyr, but as a substitute, taking the… — Alistair Begg Copy Share Image
“A martyr is, he who has become the instrument of God, who has lost his will in the will of God, not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The saints must be honored as friends of Christ and children and heirs of God. Let us carefully observe the manner of… — John of Damascus Copy Share Image
As Elisabeth Elliot points out, not even dying a martyr’s death is classified as extraordinary obedience when you are following a Savior… — David Platt Copy Share Image
We have to get out of this cultural mindset of putting badges on ourselves and playing the martyr spinning 1,000 plates. We… — Jo Frost Copy Share Image
Of all the featherless beasts, only man, chained by his self-imposed slavery to the clock, denies the elemental fire and proceeds as… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The Young Soldier It is not death Without hereafter To one in dearth Of life and its laughter, Nor the sweet murder… — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
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