Quotes About Martyrdom

Martyrdom of followers is a strategy of political leaders to grab money and power.

If he is convicted, Dr. Kevorkian says he will die a martyr's death by going on a hunger strike.

This is the part where I die pointlessly. The one who gets sacrificed so the real heroes can get on with saving the day.

Because the saints who remain in God's Church would receive the nourishment of faith even in times of the Tribulation, they will overcome the Antichrist and triumph by embracing their martyrdom with their faith in the gospel of the water and the Spirit. God explains this fact to us through the metaphor of the woman in chapter 12. Revelation

Monumental Hypocrisy The Roman Catholic Church has been the greatest persecutor of both Jews and Christians the world has ever seen, and has martyred far more Christians than even pagan Rome or Islam. She has been exceeded only by Mao and Stalin, but they hardly claimed to be acting in Christ's name. Catholic Rome has no rival among religious institutions in qualifying as the woman who is drunk with the blood of the saints and the martyrs of Jesus.

One would think so, but so far there has been no admission of wrongdoing by Rome even regarding the Inquisition, the mistreatment and massacre of tens of thousands of Jews, the martyrdom of millions of Christians, the slaughter of 1 million Serbs during World War II, and the smuggling of tens of thousands of Nazi war criminals into safe havens.

No less important than the ideal of martyrdom was that of virginity, which also goes back to the first age of the Church. Indeed the two ideals were associated - first by the cult of virgin martyrs, like St. Agnes, which was so popular, and secondly by the idea that virginity was a kind of living martyrdom, a witness to the power of the faith to transcend human weakness.

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.

The pages of history are red with the blood of illuminated "saints" who were murdered by their religions for actually achieving the advertised spiritual rewards.

only sure way in Islam of achieving paradise is to sacrifice one's life in jihad . . . Suicide is forbidden as self-murder; but to sacrifice one's life in killing infidels carries the highest reward

The only difference between a suicide and a martyrdom really is press coverage.

Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability." (I

În ce priveÅŸte goana dup? chinuri ÅŸi înverÅŸunarea în suferin??, îndr?gostitul gelos e cam singurul care-i poate face concuren?? martirului. Åži, totuÅŸi, în timp ce acesta din urm? e canonizat, cel?lalt e luat în râs.

It is isn't easy to make someone who hasn't experienced it understand what it feels like, this martyrdom of being judged, devalued, disqualified, and misrepresented by journalists writing in haste who are bored by reading and who, for that matter, hardly ever read anything anyway. —WITOLD GOMBROWICZ,

It is St. Catherine's Day: in honor of the saint who was threatened with martyrdom on a wheel, we all walk in circles to our destination. At least, that's the theory. He has never seen anyone over the age of twelve actually doing it.

An enthusiast broods over the oppression of a people till he fancies himself commissioned by Heaven to liberate them. He ventures the attempt, which ends in little else than his own execution.

Because I am an inhuman monster, I tend to be logical, and I had thought that her new assignment would end her martyrdom as Our Lady of Perpetual Grumpiness.

presero posto con un sospiro e con l'espressione tipica dei primi martiri cristiani quando cercavano di mettersi comodi contro il palo del supplizio.

True sacrifice is painless.

La plupart de ceux qui sont morts en héros dans les camps sont des croyants : des

If one is determined to die for the truth, even a common man can create history.

Since the fall of the Soviet regime, it has been revealed that six hundred bishops, forty thousand priests, and one hundred twenty thousand monks and nuns were killed during this period. Many of these died in the harsh conditions of prison or labor camp; others were shot or buried alive. By the end of Stalin's dictatorship, only some two hundred priests remained active in the Soviet Union. The scale of this martyrdom is unprecedented in the history of the Christian Church.

Within two years of Lenin's edict more than thirty bishops and 1,200 priests had been killed and thousands more jailed.

The way I see it, there is no greater spiritual beauty than fanaticism, of a sort so sincere it can only end in martyrdom.