Quotes About Martyrdom

A group of Puritans, persecuted in England because of their religion

I said, "Instant gratification takes too long." The glib martyr.

They never fail who die in a great cause.

The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.

Nevertheless, four hours after dawn they began dying for their cause.

We have come to the determination to die, all of us, rather than abandon our God, and our religion.

Have you noticed how easily the very young die? They make the best martyrs for any cause, the best soldiers, the best suicides. It's because they're held here so lightly: they haven't yet accumulated loves and responsibilities and commitments and all the things that tie us securely to this world. They can let go of it as easily and simply as lifting a finger. But as you get older, you begin to find things that are worth holding onto, forever.

Spare all I have, and take my life.

I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.

A man really believes not what he recites in his creed, but only the things he is ready to die for.

Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr, the man who will not act until he knows all will never act at all.

Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like: it is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.

I killed one man to save 100,000.

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

Henry Mercado, Purcell knew, was comforted by thinking he was protecting the Holy Grail from the Antichrist, or whatever, and he could go to his martyrdom happy in the knowledge that when he met Jesus he could say, 'I saved your cup.

Even if, as seems likely, Islamic State is defeated in Iraq and Syria, its network in cyberspace and in the West will live on, a toxic milieu where the memes of dawa can breed, converting one loser after another to the cause of murderous martyrdom.

It is clear that, although beheaded, and crucified, and thrown to wild beasts . . . and fire, and all other kinds of torture, we do not give up our confession. But the more such things happen, the more do other persons and in larger numbers become faithful believers and worshippers of God through the name of Jesus. JUSTIN MARTYR, DIALOGUE WITH TRYPHO

So the question becomes, If you are ever faced with this choice are you willing to die for what you believe in? For that is the only way you will deny him. [...] It's a difficult question and not one you can answer until you're faced with it. Keep in mind that many people have died for their beliefs; it's actually quite common. The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe.

many people have died for their beliefs; it's actually quite common. The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe.

Keep in mind that many people have died for their beliefs; it's actually quite common. The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe

Peygamberlerden kork Adso; gerçek uÄŸruna ölmeye haz?r olanlardan da; çünkü onlar genellikle birçok insan? da kendileriyle birlikte ölmeye sürüklerler, bazen kendilerinden önce, bazen de kendilerinin yerine.

Huye, Adso, de los profetas y de los que están dispuestos a morir por la verdad, porque suelen provocar también la muerte de muchos otros, a menudo antes que la propia, y a veces en lugar de la propia.

He learned that love is not all pleasure, but can be agony and heartache, martyrdom and sacrifice. He learned what the clergyman was talking about in the marriage service: for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish till death do us part.

No easy matter to stick to the conviction that your point of view is right and that all the people about you are wrong. That is the way not merely with pioneers of thought, with heroes, saints, and martyrs, but also with lunatics and "nuts," of whom there are millions in the world. When one of these "nuts" succeeds in persuading the greater part of a great nation that he is right, the five per cent have to stop and ask themselves: "How come?