Martyrdom Quote by Flannery O'Connor

She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.

— Flannery O'Connor

“Why be a saint unless you could also be a martyr?”

— Louise Penny

“It's the martyrdom of Saint Me.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“The woman was either a saint or a total masochist.”

— Jess Raven

“He knew now that at the end there was only one thing that counted - to be a saint.”

— Graham Greene

“Saints are merely tyrants in the kingdom of virtue.”

— Julia Glass

“A saint is a human being who neither wants nor needs to hurt you.”

— Judith Fitzgerald

“You could tempt a saint into ruin.”

— Vivienne Lorret

“One can covert only a sinner, never a saint.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“It's easy to become a saint.”

— St. John Bosco

“For if there are saints, Madame knows they are few, and none of them are remembered long.”

— Adam McOmber

“A friend asks if I know the difference between a saint and a martyr: A saint is someone who radiates goodness and bears no…

— Michael Novak