Quotes About Martyrdom

It's unendurable. It is the moaning of the world, it is the martyred creation, wild with anguish, filled with terror, and groaning.

for believers in persecuted countries. We champion their sacrifice and willingness to stand for Christ, even at the cost of their own lives. Yet we consider laying aside our traditions and cultural preferences as an unreasonable expectation.

But there is no mysterious virtue in Justine's suffering. The martyrdom of this Christ-figure is absolutely useless; she is a gratuitous victim. And if there is no virtue in her suffering, then there is none, it turns out, in her virtue itself; it does nobody any good, least of all herself.

Justine is a good woman in a man's world. She is a good woman according to the rules for women laid down by men and her reward is rape, humiliation and incessant beatings. Her life is that of a woman martyrised by the circumstances of her life as a woman.

I am God's wheat, and I shall be ground by the teeth of beasts, that I may become the pure bread of Christ.

Y en cuanto a nosotros, seguiremos luchando en las montañas como guerrillas si perdemos Kandahar, y si alcanzamos el martirio, habremos obtenido una victoria.» Estoy empezando a cansarme de todo esto, pero empiezo a comprenderlo. La victoria llega con el éxito y la victoria llega con la derrota.

She lay dying, wrapped in invisible robes of martyrdom, presenting her helplessness and passivity to him like adornments, and his dominant feeling was distaste.

we add a fourth intention, namely, that of a desire to receive the crown of martyrdom and a purpose of embracing it.

the gold of loyal hearts, the myrrh of desired martyrdom, and the incense of a pure faith.

People are always doing things for my sake and strangely enough, I'm the one who suffers for it.

Any theologian understands martyrdom, but only the martyr experiences the fire.

understanding is not the point. Feeling is the point. Understanding and experiencing are not interchangeable. Any theologian understands martyrdom, but only the martyr experiences the fire.

DURING THE SUMMER OF THE year 64, the emperor Nero sometimes lit up his garden at night by setting fire to a few fully conscious Christians who had been covered with wax and then impaled high on poles forced up their rectums. Nero also had Christians killed by wild animals in the arena, and he even crucified a few.

When a[n Afghan Arab] fighter fell, his comrades would congratulate him and weep because they were not also slain in battle.

People will die for their religious beliefs if they sincerely believe they're true, but people won't die for their religious beliefs if they know their beliefs are false.

In all times, and all countries especially in those countries which are divided within by religious faith, there are always fanatics who will be well contented to be regarded as martyrs.

But notice that where you must do work not your own, assume these responsibilities; see that you do not allow them to be thrust upon you. What you undertake open-eyed will seldom be made later a cause of martyrdom and sullenness.

Sons of Islam everywhere, the jihad is a duty—to establish the rule of Allah on earth and to liberate your countries and yourselves from America's domination and its Zionist allies. It is your battle—either victory or martyrdom." ?—Ahmed Yassin, founder of Hamas

I blew myself up, Im on some martyr shit. Carry the weight for my city like a cargo ship.

So long as you are ready to die for humanity, the life of your country is immortal.

Even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot Where the dogs go on with their doggy life

We were proud of our precious red scarves, which, like the national flag, were dyed red with the blood of our revolutionary martyrs. We

Even little children repeat that oftentimes people are hanged for having told the truth.

He had already prepared himself for martyrdom, and the last thing he desired was to be offered an alternative