Quotes About Martyrdom

Burning the witch Giordano Bruno is one more wound inflicted on Christ's body.

Follow me if I advance kill me if I retreat revenge me if I die!

I don't mind if my life goes in the service of the nation. If I die, every drop of my blood will invigorate the nation.

A martyr is the one who bears witness that the Shari'ah of Allah is more valuable to him than his own life.

History treats kindly the courage of Jesus, Abraham Lincoln, Ghandi, Medgar Evers, Martin Luther King, Jr., Harvey Milk, and, to a general degree, the millions of women who contested the patriarchy, but their own communities and contemporaries killed them for it.

I find it incredibly romantic that people should fight for a cause they believe in and be prepared to die for it.

This liberty will look easy by and by when nobody dies to get it.

War happens inside a man," Eric Sevareid concluded. "It happens to one man alone. It can never be communicated.… A million martyred lives leave an empty place at only one family table.

The plot was foiled. The young man was hanged, having refused on principle, and despite his mother's entreaties, to ask the tsar for clemency. This event greatly helped to propel Vladimir onto his own revolutionary career. His martyred brother became his hero and the annihilation of tsarism his implacable aim.[17]

When you are weaker, there is nothing to be gained by fighting a useless fight. No one comes to help the weak—by doing so they would only put themselves in jeopardy. The weak are alone and must submit. Fighting gives you nothing to gain but martyrdom, and in the process a lot of people who do not believe in your cause will die.

For every famous martyr there are thousands more who have inspired neither a religion nor a rebellion, so that if martyrdom does sometimes grant a certain power, it does so unpredictably.

People trying to make a show of their authority are easily deceived by the surrender tactic. Your outward sign of submission makes them feel important; satisfied that you respect them, they become easier targets for a later counterattack, or for the kind of indirect ridicule used by Brecht. Measuring your power over time, never sacrifice long-term maneuverability for the short-lived glories of martyrdom.

Martyrdom serves no purpose—better to live on in an oppressive world, even to thrive in it. Meanwhile find a way to express your ideas subtly for those who understand you. Laying your pearls before swine will only bring you trouble.

A victim soul is a pious individual chosen to absorb the pain and suffering of others.

Rhianna flashed Rose a small smile. "Sometimes I have a chip on my shoulder. You know, the woe-is-me-I'm-such-a-martyr complex.

Jesus says that every Christian has his own cross waiting for him, a cross destined and appointed by God. Each must endure his allotted share of suffering and rejection. But each has a different share: some God deems worthy of the highest form of suffering, and gives them the grace of martyrdom, while others he does not allow to be tempted above that which they are able to bear. But it is the one and the same cross in every case.

The future in modern society depends much more on the quiet heroism of the very few who are inspired by God. These few will greatly enjoy the divine inspiration and will be prepared to stand for the dignity of man and true freedom and to keep the law of God, even if it means martyrdom or death.

57 Y arrojándolo fuera de la ciudad lo apedrearon; y los testigos depositaron sus vestidos a los pies de un mancebo, que se llamaba Saulo. 58 Y apedreaban a Esteban, el cual estaba orando, y diciendo: Señor Jesús, recibe mi espíritu. 59 Y poniéndose de rodillas, clamó en alta voz: Señor, no les hagas cargo de este pecado. Y dicho esto, durmió en el Señor. Saulo empero había consentido como los otros a la muerte de Esteban. 8

The bush is a home for martyrs.

I come now to tell you for what I am brought here to die, and to give you an account of my faith, which I shall do as in the sight of the living God before whom I am shortly to stand.

I am no martyr upon cross, but I would gladly give my life so that those more deserving may live.

I knew what I took upon myself and I was prepared to lose my life by so doing.

Missionary life is simply a chance to die.

Things become quieter, but the cries do not cease. "What's up, Albert?" I ask. "A couple of columns over there got it in the neck." The cries continued. It is not men, they could not cry so terribly. "Wounded horses," says Kat. It's unendurable. It is the moaning of the world, it is the martyred creation, wild with anguish, filled with terror, and groaning.