Flesh and blood Quote by Michael D. O'Brien

“A man may indeed be an honest man; but the folly of sacrifice, of virginity, of devotedness, of martyrdom, arises only from faith in…

— Emile Bougaud

“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

“We live together,we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. The martyrs go hand…

— Aldous Huxley

“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

“Those of us with the courage to open ourselves to that much love and not fear it - who can give joy to a…

— Derek Miller

“A martyr is, he who has become the instrument of God, who has lost his will in the will of God, not lost it…

— Anonymous

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

— Louise Penny

“persuading himself that he was a most conscientious and glorious martyr, [he] nobly resolved to do what, if he had examined his own heart…

— Charles Dickens

“Men reject their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and honor those they have slain.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“O, because I have had only that kind of benevolence which consists in lying on a sofa, and cursing the church and clergy for…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

“O God, forgive me - I am a proud, lustful, greedy man. I have loved authority too much. These people are martyrs - protecting…

— Graham Greene

“[...]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