“To live for oneself is a terrifying prospect; there is comfort in martyrdom... p 364” — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
“We would do our theology better if more was at stake in what we said.” — John Piper Copy Share Image
Martyrdom is the only path to immortality that requires no talent whatsoever. — George Bernard Shaw 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
“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
If a man is in doubt whether it would be better for him to expose himself to martyrdom or not, he should… — Samuel Johnson 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
“The only difference between a suicide and a martyrdom really is the amount of press coverage.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Martyrdom operations - suicide bombings - should be exported outside Palestine. I encourage Palestinians to take suicide bombings worldwide. Don't be shy… — Hassan Nasrallah Copy Share Image
Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief. — Arthur Schnitzler 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
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
Martyrdom is evidence only of a man's honesty - it is no evidence that he is not mistaken. Men have suffered martyrdom… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
What were you thinking?" I demanded once we were moving to the music. I was trying to ignore his hands. "Do you… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Literary dementia seems dated now, but there was a time when a month in the funny farm was as de rigueur for… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
“The anarch sticks to facts, not ideas. He suffers not for facts but because of them, and usually through his own fault,… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of… — Soren Kierkegaard 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
Give people pride and they'll live on bread and water, bless their exploiters, and even die for them. Self-surrender is a transaction… — Eric Hoffer 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
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
“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
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
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
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
Martyrdom does not consist only in dying for one's faith. Martyrdom also consists in serving God with love and purity of heart… — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
The truth that we must finally confront is that Islam contains specific notions of martyrdom and jihad that fully explain the character… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
God honors some with great suffering and grants them the grace of martyrdom, while other are not tempted beyond their strength. But… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I wrap the potential for bitterness, resentment, martyrdom in the blanket of forgiveness and just set it down. Then it just melts… — Mary Anne Radmacher Copy Share Image
“A martyr is someone willing to die for what he believes in. A fanatic is someone willing for you to die for… — Marsha Hinds Copy Share Image
Jesus died to forgive our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them? — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
“The noble heart will find no shortage of places to offer itself in martyrdom, but you cannot die on every battlefield.” — R.L. Syme Copy Share Image
“Martyrdom is not a beginning, it is an end. The last thing this world needs is more martyrs.” — Zohreh Ghahremani Copy Share Image
There are daily martyrdoms occurring of more or less self-abnegation, and of which the world knows nothing. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin 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
“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
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
![“She [my mother] was the force around which our world turned. My mother was propelled through the universe by the brute force of reason. She was the judge in all our arguments. One disapproving word from her was enough to send us off to hide in a corner, where we would cry and fantasize our own…” quote by Nicole Krauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ddd/nicole-krauss-920_argument_she-my-mother-was-the-force-around-which_704012.png)
