Although always prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it should be postponed. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Love makes the whole difference between an execution and a martyrdom. — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
“Death with character has dignity, without it, every breath is burden.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like: it is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“I suppose it's something to do with her black-brained religion not to take care of the body.” — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot Where the dogs go on with their… — W H Auden Copy Share Image
“Some men are sent to heaven by torturers who thought they were doing god's work by sending them to hell” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
Be careful how you suggest things to me. For there is in me a madness which goes beyond martyrdom, the madness of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Wherever it pleases God to put man in this world, the Christian must be ready for martyrdom and death. It is only… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer 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
“My martyrdom is not the selfless kind. I can't look at Filippa, shamed by all the injuries I've inflicted- like a man… — M.L. Rio Copy Share Image
We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
One book that has influenced the writer very strongly is Winwood Reade's Martyrdom of Man...It is still an extraordinarily inspiring presentation of… — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
They say martyrdom is the highest rank a believer can achieve! Do not believe in this! The highest rank is the life… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
You stand now between anarchy and law. The Police have done their duty. Let the jury have the same courage so that… — Jason Epstein Copy Share Image
You do not know the unfathomable cowardice of humanity...servile in the face of force, pitiless in the face of weakness, implacable before… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
The history of missions is the history of answered prayer. From Pentecost to the Haystack meeting in New England and from the… — Samuel Marinus Zwemer Copy Share Image
It is not easy to explain why God permits evil; but it is impossible for an atheist to explain the existence of… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
We should be wary what persecution we raise against the living labors of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Apart from it, the incarnation and the ministry would lose all their significance, the crucifixion would be but a martyrdom, and the… — Robert Anderson Copy Share Image
Toughness found fertile soil in the hearts of Palestinians, and the grains of resistance embedded themselves in their skin. Endurance evolved as… — Susan Abulhawa Copy Share Image
It shouldn't be difficult, then, to make the transposition at this point into the early Christian vision of Jesus and the Spirit… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
She [my mother] was the force around which our world turned. My mother was propelled through the universe by the brute force… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“But its exclusive character and irreconcileable hostility to the religious cults and ceremonies with which the whole social life of the city-state… — Christopher Henry Dawson Copy Share Image
God sends such purgations to you, directors of consciences, that you may acquire the science of the saints and the art of… — Paul of the Cross Copy Share Image
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
“Although prepared for martyrdom, I prefer that it be postponed.” — Winston S. Churchill Copy Share Image
Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell. — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
We will not stop resisting the occupation until liberation or martyrdom. — Muqtada al Sadr Copy Share Image