Agony Quote by Henrik Ibsen

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

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

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“[...]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

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

— Stanley Hauerwas

A dead martyr is just another corpse.

— Leo Gordon

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…

— Mark Galli

For some not to be martyrs is martyrdom indeed.

— Leo Rosten

God honors some with great suffering and grants them the grace of martyrdom, while other are not tempted beyond their strength. But in every…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

As Elisabeth Elliot points out, not even dying a martyr’s death is classified as extraordinary obedience when you are following a Savior who died…

— David Platt

The agony of martyrdom is almost too much to bear. In the early hours, when the loss is fresh, there is no comfort in…

— David Ebershoff

“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