Best Martyrdom Quotes
95 Martyrdom quotes by 82 unique authors
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The agony of martyrdom is almost too much to bear. In the early hours, when the loss is fresh, there is no comfort in knowing…
— David Ebershoff
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The way I see it, there is no greater spiritual beauty than fanaticism, of a sort so sincere it can only end in martyrdom.
— Isabelle Eberhardt
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My grandmother always acted in other people's interests, whether they wanted her to or not. If they'd had an Olympics in martyrdom my grandmother would…
— Emily Levine
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In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable.
— Manfred von Richthofen
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We must all have the spirit of martyrdom, though we may not all die martyrs.
— George Whitefield
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The future of modern society depends much more on the quiet heroism of the very few who are inspired by God. These few will greatly…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Were the happiness of the next world is as closely apprehended as the felicities of this, it were a martyrdom to live.
— Thomas Browne
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When the Christians, upon these occasions, received martyrdom, they were ornamented, and crowned with garlands of flowers; for which they, in heaven, received eternal crowns…
— John Foxe
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Martyrdom does not consist only in dying for one's faith. Martyrdom also consists in serving God with love and purity of heart every day of…
— St. Jerome
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Give people pride and they'll live on bread and water, bless their exploiters, and even die for them. Self-surrender is a transaction of barter: we…
— Eric Hoffer
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Apart from it, the incarnation and the ministry would lose all their significance, the crucifixion would be but a martyrdom, and the cross a symbol…
— Robert Anderson
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Is there art that is more beautiful, more divine, and more eternal that the art of martyrdom? A nation with martyrdom knows no captivity. Those…
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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It is not suicide; it is martyrdom in the name of God. I consider this type of martyrdom operation as an indication of the justice…
— Yusuf al-Qaradawi
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Not being ambitious of martyrdom, even in the cause of gastronomical enterprise, especially if the instrument is to be a contemptible, rank-smelling fungus, I never…
— Mary Virginia Terhune
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Where there is most feeling, there is the greatest martyrdom.
— Leonardo da Vinci
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I've come to believe that God, in His wisdom, allows martyrdom in every generation in part because, without them, the reality of Christ's death for…
— Mark Galli
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With hearts that believe in Allah's will and predetermination, we have received the news about the martyrdom of the martyr. . . . Al-Hotary, the…
— Yasser Arafat
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Jesus says that every Christian has his own cross waiting for him, a cross destined and appointed by God. Each must endure his allotted share…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If a man is in doubt whether it would be better for him to expose himself to martyrdom or not, he should not do it.…
— Samuel Johnson
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There are daily martyrdoms occurring of more or less self-abnegation, and of which the world knows nothing.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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For all have not the gift of martyrdom.
— John Dryden
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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.
— Karl Kraus
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I wrap the potential for bitterness, resentment, martyrdom in the blanket of forgiveness and just set it down. Then it just melts in the warmth.…
— Mary Anne Radmacher
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I have read somewhere that in a totalitarian system martyrdom does better than thought.
— Vaclav Havel
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