Martyrs Quotes

We, who are the living, possess the past. Tomorrow is for our martyrs.

— James L. Farmer, Jr

“The martyrs died for conscience, but not for liberty.”

— John Bagnell Bury

The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

— Aleister Crowley

For some not to be martyrs is martyrdom indeed.

— Leo Rosten

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

— Miguel de Unamuno

Take away the contests of the martyrs, and you have taken away their crowns.

— Saint Ambrose

Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.

— Miguel de Unamuno

History is changed by martyrs who tell the truth.

— Miguel Syjuco

“We don’t know why God chose to deliver Peter from death and James through death. The text doesn’t say.”

— K. Howard Joslin

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

— Pope Paul VI

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

— James A. Garfield

“What if we chose to regard the 2,973 innocents killed in the terrorist attacks of 9/11 as heroes and martyrs, 'sacrifices on…

— David Foster Wallace

“In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the Church, counted its martyrs by thousands. -James A. Garfield”

— Christopher Nuttall

“We are humans, they say we are mortals. Though we do live once but can last forever.”

— M.H. Rakib

You think I should be as forgiving as you are? We can’t all be saints and martyrs.

— Stephenie Meyer

Men have lost their reason in nothing so much as their religion, wherein stones and clouts make martyrs.

— Thomas Browne

“By the light of burning martyrs, Christ, thy bleeding feet we track Toiling up new Calv'ries ever with the cross that turns…

— James Russell Lowell

“We can always be sure of one thing—that the messengers of discomfort and sacrifice will be stoned and pelted by those who…

— Christopher Hitchens

Adaptation to one's environment makes for a sort of survival; but after all, the supreme victory is only won by those who…

— Aleister Crowley

While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that…

— John B. S. Haldane

The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church. (Terullian) When she ceases to bleed, she ceases to bless. She…

— L. E. Maxwell

We may never be martyrs but we can die to self, to sin, to the world, to our plans and ambitions. That…

— Vance Havner

For to articulate sweet sounds together Is to work harder than all these, and yet Be thought an idler by the noisy…

— William Butler Yeats

They're not put on earth to be martyrs; they have to want to come out. It depends on your culture, where you…

— Billie Jean King

“A carpenter witnessed to me about Christ. He died knowing he had brought only my wife and me to faith, but we…

— Richard Wurmbrand

“Rid of the world’s injustice, and his pain, He rests at last beneath God’s veil of blue: Taken from life when life…

— Oscar Wilde

I am telling you before anything, that the blood of the martyrs and the injured will not go in vain. And I…

— Hosni Mubarak

“There are hundreds of political prisoners right now in America’s jails who were so taken by Malcolm [X’s} spirit that they became…

— Cornel West

“Is it just possible that the most vigorous and boldest idealists have been the worst enemies of human progress instead of its…

— Sinclair Lewis

“We must not therefore consider the afflictions that come upon us as happening by chance or solely from the malice of men;…

— Alphonsus Maria de Liguori

We love the old saints, missionaries, martyrs, and reformers. Our Luthers, Bunyans, Wesleys and Asburys, etc... We will write their biographies, reverence…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

You victorious martyrs who endured torments gladly for the sake of God and Savior, you who have boldness of speech toward the…

— Ephrem the Syrian

“You are to make up your mind whether it is to be God or man. Whether you are to be free or…

— Joseph Lewis

“Thus identified with astronomy, in proclaiming truths supposed to be hostile to Scripture, Geology has been denounced as the enemy of religion.…

— David Brewster

“They are all dead now, Diocletian and Ignatius, Cyril and Hypatia, Julian and Basil, Athanasius and Arîus: every party has yielded up…

— Gilbert Murray

“It's an insidious idea, this notion that there is life after death. The promise of a reward in the afterlife has been…

— Alom Shaha

“Every November of my boyhood, we put on red poppies and attended highly patriotic services in remembrance of those who had 'given'…

— Christopher Hitchens

“was virtually certain of that. As the coach drew into St. Giles’, the sky was an open blue, and the sunlight gleamed…

— Colin Dexter

“The hocus-pocus phantasm of a God like another Cerberus, with one body and three heads, had its birth and growth in the…

— Thomas Jefferson

“{ Wells discussing his experiences with Christianity } I realised as if for the first time, the menace of these queer shaven…

— H.G. Wells