We, who are the living, possess the past. Tomorrow is for our martyrs. — James L. Farmer, Jr Copy Share Image
Take away the contests of the martyrs, and you have taken away their crowns. — Saint Ambrose Copy Share Image
It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs. — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
In the blood of the martyrs to intolerance are the seeds of unbelief — Walter Lippmann 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
Twenty-two martyrs were recognized, but there were many more, and not only Catholics. There were also Anglicans and some Mohammedans. — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the Church, counted its martyrs by thousands. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Martyrs, martyrs, martyrs,... we want a million martyrs to march on Jerusalem. — Yasser Arafat Copy Share Image
You think I should be as forgiving as you are? We can’t all be saints and martyrs. — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
Men have lost their reason in nothing so much as their religion, wherein stones and clouts make martyrs. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
“In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the Church, counted its martyrs by thousands. -James A. Garfield” — Christopher Nuttall Copy Share Image
“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 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
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 Copy Share Image
We may never be martyrs but we can die to self, to sin, to the world, to our plans and ambitions. That… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“A carpenter witnessed to me about Christ. He died knowing he had brought only my wife and me to faith, but we… — Richard Wurmbrand Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
I am telling you before anything, that the blood of the martyrs and the injured will not go in vain. And I… — Hosni Mubarak 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
“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
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 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
“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
“They are all dead now, Diocletian and Ignatius, Cyril and Hypatia, Julian and Basil, Athanasius and Arîus: every party has yielded up… — Gilbert Murray 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
“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
“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
“was virtually certain of that. As the coach drew into St. Giles’, the sky was an open blue, and the sunlight gleamed… — Colin Dexter 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