Quotes About Martyrdom

Loves and Cupids took to flight afraid, and Martyrdom had no such torment in its painted history of suffering.

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.

Those who love their lives too much eventually lose it. While those who are ready to sacrifice their lives for others gain it.

It is called Giordano Bruno after the sixteenth-century Roman Catholic scholar who held that there are an infinity of worlds and that many are inhabited. For this and other crimes he was burned at the stake in the year 1600.

There is little opiate delusion in Jesus's grim warning to his comrades that if they were true to his Gospel of love and justice, they would meet the same sticky end as him. The measure of your love in his view is whether they kill you or not.

The author of the Gospel of Judas wasn't against martyrdom, and he didn't ever insult the martyrs. He said it's one thing to die for God if you have to do that. But it's another thing to say that's what God wants, that this is a glorification of God.

I feel in me the vocation of the Priest. I have the vocation of the Apostle. Martyrdom was the dream of my youth, and this dream has grown with me. Considering the mystical body of the Church, I desired to see myself in them all.

During the Inquisition, the renegade monk Giordano Bruno was burned alive at the stake for suggesting that God, in His infinite power, created innumerable worlds.

In this life, he had inflicted pain upon many people without feeling the slightest twinge of compassion, yet contemplation of Shemyaza's martyrdom kindled panic in Othman's heart.

When I looked into the lives of the Chinese saints, I discovered that many of them had died during the Boxer Rebellion, a war that occurred on Chinese soil in the year 1900.

The martyrdom of Lalaji has shaken the Congressmen. Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru is planning something solid to be presented for adoption in the coming session of the Congress, but I am not sure if he would be able to do something.

I will die for my God. I will die for my faith. It's the least I can do for Christ dying for me.

In twenty cities, or about that number, the godly [Huguenots] have been slaughtered by raging mobs," Calvin noted grimly to his chief disciple, Théodore Beza, in a letter written in May 1561. In Provence, enraged Protestants ransacked Catholic churches and destroyed relics in retaliation.

También nosotros somos llamados a ello, a través de aquel martirio interior que es la «compunción» - como la llamaba la tradición ascética y mística-, es decir, el corazón que se deja traspasar por el pecado de la humanidad, porque «el Amor no es amado», porque «Dios no es conocido», porque «Cristo es ofendido».

I mean who the hell do you think you are, exactly? Saint Roland of the Perpetual Martyrdom?

I say that no man can be greater than the man who bravely and heroically sacrifices his life for the good of others. No man can be greater than the one who meets death face to face, and yet will not shrink from what he believes to be his highest duty.

I will burn, but this is a mere event. We shall continue our discussion in eternity.

Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error.

He was empty within. There was no stimulus, no absorbing task into which he could throw himself. But his nervous activity, his inability to be quiet,.........had indeed taken the upper hand and become his master. It was something artificial, a pressure on the nerves, a depressant, in fact......This craving for activity had become a martyrdom, but it was dissipated in a host of trivialities.

They never fail who die In a great cause: the block may soak their gore: Their heads may sodden in the sun; their limbs Be strung to city gates and castle walls-- But still their Spirit walks abroad. Though years Elapse, and others share as dark a doom, They but augment the deep and sweeping thoughts Which overpower all others, and conduct The world at last to Freedom.

Ik bezoek het veld waar de Royal New Foundland Regiment vrijwel compleet werd neergemaaid bij een onzinnige aanval, een geval van collectieve zelfmoord waarvan moslimfundamentalisten nog iets zouden kunnen leren.

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.

Martyrdom is the only way a person can become famous without ability.

Cullmann contrasts the deaths of Socrates and Jesus, pointing out that Socrates died impassively and heroically, while Jesus cried out in real fear of death.