Quotes About Martyr

The warmest feelings of Christendom cluster round the Crucifix, and he, the crucified one, is adored with passionate devotion, not as martyr for truth, not as witness for God, not as faithful to death, but as the substitute for his worshippers, as he who bears in their stead the wrath of God, and the punishment due to sin.

I want to be able to raise my kid. I was totally being a martyr about it at first, thinking I could totally do it on my own, which I did for a while. I've hired a babysitter before, but as for a full-time caregiver... for a control freak like me, it ain't gonna happen!

Don't be a martyr to your imagination.

No, no, no, choose life , More Marimondes thought. It wasn't that he disrespected the sacrifice of the martyr, but the simplicity of absolute ideals, across all religions, he found alien and disrespectful of the injunction to save life clearly enjoined in the Torah.

For Byron, the most moving sight was "Sappho's Leap," at the southeasternmost point of Ithaca, from where the poet, martyr to betrayed passion, is supposed to have flung herself into the sea.

I believe that a healthy sharing of oneself is a holy call, but so is caring for ourselves and taking time for the beautiful mysteries God created within us. The important thing is balance. Being a martyr distorts the virtuous ideal of giving to others by crossing over into victim postures and a self-denial that squelches selfhood and the creative life of the soul.

You're wallowing in guilt and he's playing the martyr. It's like living in the middle of Hamlet .

Adolf Hitler was a Jeanne d'Arc, a saint. He was a martyr.

She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.

For a tear is an intellectual thing, And a sigh is the sword of an Angel King, And the bitter groan of the martyr's woe Is an arrow from the Almighty's bow.

What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr's cause has ever been stilled by an assassin's bullet. No wrongs have ever been righted by riots and civil disorders. A sniper is only a coward, not a hero; and an uncontrolled or uncontrollable mob is only the voice of madness, not the voice of the people.

The Roman Catholic Church, had it captured me, as it nearly did, would have sent me on some mission of danger and sacrifice and utilised me as a martyr; the Church established by law transformed me into an unbeliever and an antagonist.

The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.

It is so little true that martyrs offer any support to the truth of a cause that I am inclined to deny that any martyr has ever had anything to do with the truth at all.

No martyr is among ye now | Whom you can call your own | So go on your way accordingly | But know you're not alone.

A bigot delights in public ridicule, for he begins to think he is a martyr. – Sydney Smith

A martyr is, he who has become the instrument of God, who has lost his will in the will of God, not lost it but found it, for he has found freedom in submission to God. The martyr no longer desires anything for himself, not even the glory of martyrdom.

I saw myself as Joan of Arc.

We made mad love shadow love random love and abandoned love. Accidentally like a martyr. The hurt gets worse, and the heart gets harder.

I think your husband has that something about him that defines honor very narrowly. I fear he is the stuff of which martyrs are made. (Tom Lasser, p. 358)

As he looked at her, he saw the martyr's blood pouring forth in a stream between them, a stream that no human being could ford.

My future chef was an oversized, hysterical hedgehog with a martyr complex.

Constantine said, 'I am an emperor and a warrior, not a bishop or a martyr. A ruler by necessity must continue to sin until the very last day of his life.' Eusebius tried to object, but Constantine silenced him. He said, 'I have much to do in this life before I am ready to put sinning behind me.

He was reputed to be beyond love and hate; the eternal dying king. A martyr and a seducer; the hanged man of the Tarot.