Accounts Quote by Alistair Begg

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

— Pope Paul VI

And while Protestant reformers broke with Rome on a variety of counts, their treatment of their fellow human beings was no less disgraceful. Public…

— Sam Harris

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

— Vance Havner

“(Fun fact: more Christians were martyred by one another in the decades after the Reformation than were martyred by the Roman Empire.6)”

— Rachel Held Evans

However different the holy causes people die for, they perhaps die basically for the same thing.

— Eric Hoffer

Twenty years after the death of Luther there were more Catholics than when he was born. And twenty years after the death of Voltaire…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

They [the disciples] were testifying to the resurrection, a question of fact, not merely of faith. They were convinced of an event. And their…

— Dave Hunt

“Still, if we combine all the victims of all these persecutions, it turns out that in these three centuries, the polytheistic Romans killed no…

— Yuval Noah Harari

The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.

— Tertullian

Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.

— Franz Kafka

“The only plausible common basis for all these events is to celebrate the rise of Protestantism. This raises an even more important matter: that…

— Rodney Stark