Quotes About Martyr

In the primitive church, it was customary for the Holy Eucharist to be celebrated on the anniversary of the death of a martyr - if possible, on his tomb.

This is woman's great benevolence, that she will become a martyr for beauty, so that the world may have pleasure.

The moonlight shone with exceeding lustre through the tall casements and lit into a ghastly semblance of life the marble images of saint and martyr, that threw their long shadows over the consecrated floor.

I could be martyr'd for my Religion — Love is my religion — I could die for that — I could die for you.

not least because he eventually died a martyr's death,

I can think of no better way to die than as a martyr for my race and my way of life, Smyrt said. And if the Colonial Union dies with us, then I will welcome its diluted population as our honor guard into hell.

Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr.

The first that dies is a martyr, and dies for his religion; and of such it may more truly be said than of soldiers that they die on the bed of honour. Abel's death has not only no curse in it, but it has a crown in it;

A friend asks if I know the difference between a saint and a martyr: A saint is someone who radiates goodness and bears no faults. A martyr is someone who lives with a saint.

fight and end up as a martyr. Protesting was for young men without families.

The ink of a scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.

The state can easily destroy religion, but religion cannot do the same with the state. Therefore, defend and secure the freedom of your state before you want to become a martyr of your religion.

There are only two types of people in this world: those who die for freedom and those who died for their religions. Both are considered martyrs.

About Jesus as the point at which—exactly as the martyr Stephen had claimed—heaven and earth were now held together, fused together; it was about Jesus as being, in person, the reality toward which the Temple itself had pointed.

The whole of Christ's life was a continual passion; others die martyrs, but Christ was born a martyr. He found a Golgotha, where he was crucified, even in Bethlehem, where he was born; for to his tenderness then the straws were almost as sharp as the thorns after, and the manger as uneasy at first as the cross at last. His birth and his death were but one continual act, and his Christmas Day and his Good Friday are but the evening and the morning of one

It is the cause and not merely the death that makes the martyr.

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

I'm fighting so I can die a martyr and go to heaven to meet God. Our fight now is against the Americans.

for although he is said to be a liar from the beginning, not one case is known, in all devil-lore in which the Devil attempts to cheat his stipulators. Thus he appears as the most unfairly maligned person, and as a martyr of simple-minded honesty.

All who were sitting in the Sanhedrin looked intently at Stephen, and they saw that his face was like the face of an angel.