Belief Quote by David Platt

“[...]not even dying a martyr's death is classified as extraordinary obedience when you are following a Savior who died on a cross.”

— David Platt

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…

— St. Jerome

Not all of us are called to die a martyr’s death, but all of us are called to have the same spirit of self-sacrifice…

— Richard Wurmbrand

A martyr can never cooperate with death, go to death in a way that they're not trying to escape.

— Stanley Hauerwas

“A true martyr is not an opportunist who dies to get a reward of eternal life. A true martyr is a humanist who dies…

— Mouloud Benzadi

A dead martyr is just another corpse.

— Leo Gordon

Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, never the correctness of his thought. Things are true or false in themselves.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

No martyr ever went the way of duty, and felt the shadow of death upon it. The shadow of death is darkest in the…

— William Mountford

For some not to be martyrs is martyrdom indeed.

— Leo Rosten

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I am no martyr upon cross, but I would gladly give my life so that those more deserving may live.

— Gannicus

“The martyr is the exact opposite of the pagan hero personified in the Greek and Germanic heroes … For the pagan hero, a man’s…

— Alain de Benoist