We must all have the spirit of martyrdom, though we may not all die martyrs. — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it. — Emile M. Cioran 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
“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
“I mean who the hell do you think you are, exactly? Saint Roland of the Perpetual Martyrdom?” — Catherine Jinks Copy Share Image
You can't sustain [anger]. You become bitter. Nothing's going to change. Anger leads to resentment, then to spiking your orange juice, then… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“Be of good comfort, Mr. Ridley, and play the man: We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in… — Hugh Latimer Copy Share Image
Do not desire crosses, unless you have borne those already laid upon you well — it is an abuse to long after… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom - that may be necessary in religion, but in… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
“A true martyr is not an opportunist who dies to get a reward of eternal life. A true martyr is a humanist… — Mouloud Benzadi Copy Share Image
Unjust laws have to be fought ideologically; they cannot be fought or corrected by means of mere disobedience and futile martyrdom. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If martyrdom is now on the decline, it is not because martyrs are less zealous, but because martyr-mongers are more wise. The… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“She would have to be a saint because that was the occupation that included everything you could know; and yet she knew… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“The world is coursing through my blood, I can live without myself, but not the world. You can take me away from… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“He prizes me as a soldier would a good weapon, and that is all. [...] Can I receive from him the bridal… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
When the Christians, upon these occasions, received martyrdom, they were ornamented, and crowned with garlands of flowers; for which they, in heaven,… — John Foxe Copy Share Image
No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
I feel in me the vocation of the Priest. I have the vocation of the Apostle. Martyrdom was the dream of my… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
The Church of Christ has been founded by shedding its own blood, not that of others; by enduring outrage, not by inflicting… — St. Jerome 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
“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
“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
“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
It is not to taste sweet things; but to do noble and true things, and vindicate himself under God's heaven as a… — Thomas Carlyle 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
Martyrdom of followers is a strategy of political leaders to grab money and power. — Sreenivasan Copy Share Image
I have read somewhere that in a totalitarian system martyrdom does better than thought. — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
“Martyrdom is something a Christian resigns himself to, not an end he seeks out.” — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
No human beings are more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
God uses prisons to train people for future roles of leadership or martyrdom. — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
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