Take away the contests of the martyrs, and you have taken away their crowns. — Saint Ambrose Copy Share Image
“I could have been 23 next July I gambled on what mattered most, the dice were cast. I lost.” — Hannah Senesh Copy Share Image
The author of the Gospel of Judas wasn't against martyrdom, and he didn't ever insult the martyrs. He said it's one thing… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
“The faithful clamoured to be buried alongside the martyrs, as close as possible to the venerable remains, a custom which, in anthropological… — Catharine Arnold Copy Share Image
“Thus identified with astronomy, in proclaiming truths supposed to be hostile to Scripture, Geology has been denounced as the enemy of religion.… — David Brewster Copy Share Image
Martyrs - those killed because of their Catholic faith - can be beatified even if they don't perform a miracle. However, all… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“We are humans, they say we are mortals. Though we do live once but can last forever.” — M.H. Rakib Copy Share Image
The heart was always seen as the noblest of the internal organs as well as the most vital. The hearts of martyrs… — George Fetherling Copy Share Image
“Is it just possible that the most vigorous and boldest idealists have been the worst enemies of human progress instead of its… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
“Those of us with the courage to open ourselves to that much love and not fear it - who can give joy… — Derek Miller Copy Share Image
“We don’t know why God chose to deliver Peter from death and James through death. The text doesn’t say.” — K. Howard Joslin Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“{ Wells discussing his experiences with Christianity } I realised as if for the first time, the menace of these queer shaven… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
Surely martyrs, irrespective of the special phase of the divine idea for which they gladly give up their bodies to torture and… — Katharine Lee Bates Copy Share Image
“The pages of history are red with the blood of illuminated "saints" who were murdered by their religions for actually achieving the… — Christopher S. Hyatt 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
Religion, art, and science flourish best in a free society. True, freedom does not afford much opportunity for grand gestures. It has… — Virginia Postrel 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
“Every November of my boyhood, we put on red poppies and attended highly patriotic services in remembrance of those who had 'given'… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“You are to make up your mind whether it is to be God or man. Whether you are to be free or… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
