“Any theologian understands martyrdom, but only the martyr experiences the fire.” — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones. — Anonymous 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
Parenthood seems really rewarding... like martyrdom, but without the glamour. — Dov Davidoff Copy Share Image
God uses prisons to train people for future roles of leadership or martyrdom. — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
Loves and Cupids took to flight afraid, and Martyrdom had no such torment in its painted history of suffering. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The ANZACs, clinging lost and leaderless to the hillsides, began, as the hot afternoon gave way to grey drizzle, to experience their… — John Keegan Copy Share Image
“A man may indeed be an honest man; but the folly of sacrifice, of virginity, of devotedness, of martyrdom, arises only from… — Emile Bougaud Copy Share Image
When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of "Orthodoxy, True and False" and demonstrates that the True is his heresy. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“I do not fear death, for death transforms visionaries into martyrs; converts noble ideas into powerful movements.” — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable. — Manfred von Richthofen Copy Share Image
“There are perhaps many causes worth dying for, but to me, certainly, there are none worth killing for.” — Albert Dietrich Copy Share Image
“Muslims have regularly martyred themselves-would a Christian then agree that Islam is the "truth faith?" Since millions of so-called Pagans have been… — D.M. Murdock Copy Share Image
I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion-- I have shuddered at it, I shudder no more. I… — John Keats Copy Share Image
Some people are just addicted to suffering. They think that it will somehow make them happy at the end when really what… — Aokigahara29 Copy Share Image
To preserve the freedom of the human mind then and freedom of the press, every spirit should be ready to devote itself… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool;… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It took me a long time to realize that football isn't martyrdom, but a game that's enjoyable, and one in which getting… — Oliver Kahn Copy Share Image
Not being ambitious of martyrdom, even in the cause of gastronomical enterprise, especially if the instrument is to be a contemptible, rank-smelling… — Mary Virginia Terhune Copy Share Image
“In his play Murder in the Cathedral, T. S. Eliot describes a martyr as one “who has become an instrument of God,… — Richard Wurmbrand Copy Share Image
“One of the questions asked by al-Balkhi, and often repeated to this day, is this: Why do the children of Israel continue… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“No one has to be a martyr. On the contrary, everyone should be entirely selfish; not selfish in the normal sense of… — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
It is, indeed, a fact that, in the midst of society and sociability every evil inclination has to place itself under such… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I am too sick to work and haven't money enough to last 2 months and pay income tax. I want to keep… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
Christ-as always, the model-never sat back, crossed his arms, and dismissed the annoying, the troublesome, or the unpromising. He never name-called, never… — Heather King Copy Share Image
Marriage is for committed lovers, not hostages. Marriage is a sacred relationship created for two people who complete each other spiritually. While… — Rob Jackson Copy Share Image
“The language of martyrdom and persecution is often the language of war. It forces a rupture between “us” and “them” and perpetuates… — James Martin Copy Share Image
We cannot look upon our lives as dreams of a dreamer who has no awakening in all time. We have a personality… — Rabindranath Tagore 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
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
The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
