Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.

It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.

— Miguel de Unamuno

The only condition of fighting for the right to create is faith in your own vocation, readiness to serve, and refusal to compromise.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

“Have you ever wondered why Christ spent so much time in prayer? It was not that He lacked anything. But it was simply that…

— Iris Delgado

If you have failures of hope, create faith upon your achievement to set your goals and make your dreams come true, dont lose hope…

— Ritu Ghatourey

Twenty-two martyrs were recognized, but there were many more, and not only Catholics. There were also Anglicans and some Mohammedans.

— Pope Paul VI

All of us have a secret desire to be seen as saints, heroes, martyrs. We are afraid to be children, to be ourselves.

— Jean Vanier

In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the Church, counted its martyrs by thousands.

— James A. Garfield

It is so little true that martyrs offer any support to the truth of a cause that I am inclined to deny that any…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

For some not to be martyrs is martyrdom indeed.

— Leo Rosten

Through all history, from the beginning, a noble army of martyrs have fought fiercely and fallen bravely for that unseen mistress, their country. So,…

— George William Curtis

“We must all make the mental leap from the pious histories we have read in the martyrologies to the reality of living flesh and…

— Michael D. O'Brien

There are martyrs [between Mexican people], now I will canonize two. It is a population that you can't explain, you can't explain it because…

— Pope Francis

Those who die for their country are martyrs and those who live for their country are greater martyrs.

— Bhagat Puran Singh

The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.

— Tertullian

Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.

— Franz Kafka