Some ministers would make good martyrs: they are so dry they would burn well. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Everyone hates a martyr; it's no wonder martyrs were burned at the stake. — E. W. Howe Copy Share Image
“One can see, you know, very easily, how others ought to be martyrs.” — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
On some occasions the bodies of the martyrs who had been devoured by wild beasts, upon the beasts being strangled, were found… — Eusebius Copy Share Image
When we read, we fancy we could be martyrs; when we come to act, we cannot bear a provoking word. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
A pastor friend of mine said, "Our problem is that we no longer have martyrs. We only have celebrities. — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
The sad truth is that societies that demand whistleblowers be martyrs often find themselves without either, and always when it matters the… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Venerate the martyrs, praise, love, proclaim, honor them. But worship the God of the martyrs. — Saint Augustine 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
“The pages of history are red with the blood of illuminated "saints" who were murdered by their religions for actually achieving the… — Christopher S. Hyatt Copy Share Image
“He would like best of all to persecute us with fire and sword, but this method has availed him little because through… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“I don’t like reading about martyrs because they always make me feel petty and ashamed... ashamed to admit I hate to get… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
Martyrs - those killed because of their Catholic faith - can be beatified even if they don't perform a miracle. However, all… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
“... the Istiqlal was powerful, which did not at all coincide with his conception of it, nor with the picture the organization… — Paul Bowles 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
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
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
“If the generations of mankind suffered and laid down their lives; if martyrs sang in the fire... for no other end than… — William James Copy Share Image
“The world doesn’t need us to be martyrs. The world needs our gifts. It needs our intelligence, our laughter, and yes, our… — Jessica Ortner 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
“Actually it is hard to find “martyrs for science.” Though one can find examples under materialist, atheistic systems as, for example, during… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are those individuals who die for a cause, and we say they have made the ultimate sacrifice. We call them martyrs,… — Ilsa J. Bick 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
“Every church, yea, every truth and every good cause, has its martyrs, who stood the fiery trial and sacrificed comfort and life… — Philip Schaff 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
“{ Wells discussing his experiences with Christianity } I realised as if for the first time, the menace of these queer shaven… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“Every November of my boyhood, we put on red poppies and attended highly patriotic services in remembrance of those who had 'given'… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“was virtually certain of that. As the coach drew into St. Giles’, the sky was an open blue, and the sunlight gleamed… — Colin Dexter 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
“It's an insidious idea, this notion that there is life after death. The promise of a reward in the afterlife has been… — Alom Shaha Copy Share Image
“They are all dead now, Diocletian and Ignatius, Cyril and Hypatia, Julian and Basil, Athanasius and Arîus: every party has yielded up… — Gilbert Murray Copy Share Image
“You are to make up your mind whether it is to be God or man. Whether you are to be free or… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
“Thus identified with astronomy, in proclaiming truths supposed to be hostile to Scripture, Geology has been denounced as the enemy of religion.… — David Brewster Copy Share Image
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