Quotes About Martyrdom

They died honorably rather than like rats in a trap.

Martyrdom is meaningless in our age.

It fills me with joy to realize that I can lay down my life daily for God, that I can sacrifice it willingly for Him. I may not be a martyr for the faith, but I can be a martyr of charity.

More Christians died for their faith at the hands of fellow Christians than had died before in all the persecutions.

Let Christmas not become a thing Merely of merchant's trafficking, Of tinsel, bell and holly wreath And surface pleasure, but beneath The childish glamour, let us find Nourishment for soul and mind. Let us follow kinder ways Through our teeming human maze, And help the age of peace to come From a Dreamer's martyrdom.

Since they fought with a clear and pure conscience these men had no dread of death, confident in the knowledge that in the sight of the lord they would be his martyrs.

In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable.

If I'm called on to shed my blood, it doesn't matter because it's for the good of everyone else.

Desengáñese usted; el ladrón, por valiente que sea, al tiempo de robar siempre tiene miedo. El valor viene unido, dice Santo Tomás, con la justicia de la causa, y esto le explica a usted el valor de los mártires que desafiaban la cólera de los emperadores romanos; pero volviendo a los ladrones, repito que tienen miedo, y por miedo matan al que trata de conocerlos.

run through by a spear-wielding St Edmund,

Bede consoled his readers that the two boys had gone gladly to their deaths, 'assured of their entry into the eternal kingdom'.

Christ is the meritorious cause of the bestowing of those good gifts, faith and constancy unto martyrdom, upon you.

Not every clocktick needs a martyr.

Show my head to the people. It is worth seeing.

I wish to be a martyr, and I don't fear death.

If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's.

Do not desire crosses, unless you have borne those already laid upon you well — it is an abuse to long after martyrdom while unable to bear an insult patiently.

One individual may die for an idea, but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives.

We should have but one desire today - the desire to die so that India may live - the desire to face a martyr's death, so that the path to freedom may be paved with the martyr's blood.

Apostles of Freedom are ever idolised when dead, but crucified when alive.

The price of freedom is death.

I became acquainted with those martyrs whose behavior in camp, whose suffering and death, bore witness to the fact that the last inner freedom cannot be lost.

Although always prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it should be postponed.

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!