Martyrdom Quotes

Martyrdom Quote of the day

Either we shake one another's hands in joy at he victory of Islam in the world, or all of us will turn to eternal life, and martyrdom. In both cases, victory and success are ours.

May all Christians be found worthy of either the pure white crown of a holy life or the royal red crown of martyrdom.

When the Christians, upon these occasions, received martyrdom, they were ornamented, and crowned with garlands of flowers; for which they, in heaven, received eternal crowns of glory.

Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like: it is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.

We must all have the spirit of martyrdom, though we may not all die martyrs.

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

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

The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

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

The Prayer of the sick person is his patience and his acceptance of his sickness for the love of Jesus Christ. Make sickness itself a prayer, for there is none more powerful, save martyrdom!

Martyrdom does not consist only in dying for one's faith. Martyrdom also consists in serving God with love and purity of heart every day of one's life

Where there is most feeling, there is the greatest martyrdom.

Do good under all circumstances, but with no care for any profit, or any blessedness, or any damnation, or any salvation, or any martyrdom; but all you do or omit should be for the honor of Love.

Jesus died to forgive our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?

The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage.

Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.

I wrap the potential for bitterness, resentment, martyrdom in the blanket of forgiveness and just set it down. Then it just melts in the warmth. And goes away.

In their (women) quest for rights they have naturally placed emphasis on their wrongs rather than their achievements and possessions, and have retold history as a story of their long martyrdom

Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.

Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.

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.

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

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

The truth that we must finally confront is that Islam contains specific notions of martyrdom and jihad that fully explain the character of Muslim violence.

For all have not the gift of martyrdom.

Love makes the whole difference between an execution and a martyrdom.

Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.

Were the happiness of the next world is as closely apprehended as the felicities of this, it were a martyrdom to live.

Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error.

God uses prisons to train people for future roles of leadership or martyrdom.

Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.

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

The way I see it, there is no greater spiritual beauty than fanaticism, of a sort so sincere it can only end in martyrdom.

Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.

I have read somewhere that in a totalitarian system martyrdom does better than thought.

One book that has influenced the writer very strongly is Winwood Reade's Martyrdom of Man...It is still an extraordinarily inspiring presentation of human history as one consistent process.

Martyrdom is often the result of excessive gullibility.

Often the contempt of vainglory becomes a source of even more vainglory, for it is not being scorned when the contempt is something one is proud of.

Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, never the correctness of his thought. Things are true or false in themselves.

When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of "Orthodoxy, True and False" and demonstrates that the True is his heresy.

Wherever it pleases God to put man in this world, the Christian must be ready for martyrdom and death. It is only in this way that man learns faith.

Whenever Christ calls us, his call leads us to death.

Dead anarchists make martyrs, you know, and keep living for centuries. But absent ones can be forgotten.

My grandmother always acted in other people's interests, whether they wanted her to or not. If they'd had an Olympics in martyrdom my grandmother would have lost on purpose.

They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death are the allurements that act on the heart of man.

You can't sustain [anger]. You become bitter. Nothing's going to change. Anger leads to resentment, then to spiking your orange juice, then to martyrdom.

If a man is in doubt whether it would be better for him to expose himself to martyrdom or not, he should not do it. He must be convinced that he has a delegation from heaven.