Parenthood seems really rewarding... like martyrdom, but without the glamour. — Dov Davidoff Copy Share Image
I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way. — John Mason Brown Copy Share Image
“One can see, you know, very easily, how others ought to be martyrs.” — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Politicians who are not contemplating early retirement usually find survival more attractive than martyrdom.” — Herman E. Talmadge Copy Share Image
Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?” — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
“A dead martyr can be manipulated by his heirs; a living one is apt to drag his colleagues to the extremes dictated… — John Peter Nettl Copy Share Image
No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“She lay dying, wrapped in invisible robes of martyrdom, presenting her helplessness and passivity to him like adornments, and his dominant feeling… — Robert Galbraith Copy Share Image
If a man is in doubt whether it would be better for him to expose himself to martyrdom or not, he should… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“My birth is imminent. Forgive me, brethren. Do not prevent me from coming to life. – As he faced the prospect of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Preach or proselytize for Christianity in much of the Islamic world, and you are a candidate for martyrdom. Practice freedom of speech… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
“for when had the true faith been other than persecuted and trampled under foot? If one came to think of it with… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
“Fanaticism is the death of conversation. We do not gossip with a candidate for martyrdom. What are we to say to someone… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
In their (women) quest for rights they have naturally placed emphasis on their wrongs rather than their achievements and possessions, and have… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
Happy are those who have departed through martyrdom. Unhappy am I that I still survive... Taking this decision is more deadly than… — Ruhollah Khomeini Copy Share Image
I've come to believe that God, in His wisdom, allows martyrdom in every generation in part because, without them, the reality of… — Mark Galli Copy Share Image
The severest prosecutions have never been followed by revelations changing a divine law, obedience to which brought imprisonment or martyrdom. Though I… — Lorenzo Snow Copy Share Image
It is not suicide; it is martyrdom in the name of God. I consider this type of martyrdom operation as an indication… — Yusuf al-Qaradawi Copy Share Image
We are on strike against martyrdom—and against the moral code that demands it. We are on strike against those who believe that… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“We are at our best when we love the Lord and his church more than our style of life. We do not… — Urban Tigner Holmes Copy Share Image
“For the church, the many abuses of human life, liberty, and dignity are a heartfelt suffering. The church, entrusted with the earth’s… — Oscar A. Romero Copy Share Image
“Martyrdom will become so pronounced in the years preceding the return of the Lord primarily because of the eschatological intensification of “the… — Dalton Lifsey Copy Share Image
“In 869 we have an event which rapidly achieved almost mythic status in English Christian folklore: the horrible martyrdom of King Edmund… — Heather O'Donoghue Copy Share Image
And why does it make you sad to see how everything hangs by such thin and whimsical threads? Because you’re a dreamer,… — Eldridge Cleaver Copy Share Image
“Have not many of us, in the weary way of life, felt, in some hours, how far easier it were to die… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Fasting, as some people speculate, is not a bodily torture, martyrdom, or a cross, but it is a way to elevate the… — Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria Copy Share Image
“Although prepared for martyrdom, I prefer that it be postponed.” — Winston S. Churchill Copy Share Image
Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
We must all have the spirit of martyrdom, though we may not all die martyrs. — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Any theologian understands martyrdom, but only the martyr experiences the fire.” — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image