Quotes about Martyrdom

Pray to Christ for me that the animals will be the means of making me a sacrificial victim for God.

Better than cowardice is killing and being killed in battle.

I do not believe in death without resurrection. If they kill me I will rise again in the people of El Salvador.

I am ready to defend my convictions even unto death. I have followed the Sacred Scriptures and the holy doctors.

And as he went, he sang, saying-- Well, Faithful, thou hast faithfully profest Unto thy Lord; with whom thou shalt be blest, When faithless ones, with all their vain delights, Are crying out under their hellish plights: Sing, Faithful, sing, and let thy name survive; For though they kill'd thee, thou art yet alive!

You can be sure that one or both of you must seal his testimony with blood. So be faithful unto death, and the King will give you a crown of life. The one who dies there, although his death will be unnatural and perhaps very painful, will be better off than his companion, not only because he will arrive at the Celestial City sooner, but also because he will escape many of the miseries that the other will meet with on the rest of his journey. So

The passage is not about trying to save your skin by ducking martyrdom or something like that. The word Christ uses for "life" is the word psyche—the word for our soul, our inner self, our heart. He says that the things we do to save our psyche, our self, those plans to save and protect our inner life—those are the things that will actually destroy us.

Christ is the meritorious cause of the bestowing of those good gifts, faith and constancy unto martyrdom, upon you.

A single zealot may commence prosecutor, and better men be his victims.

When Jesus Christ shed his blood on the cross, it was not the blood of a martyr; or the blood of one man for another; it was the life of God poured out to redeem the world.

We multiply whenever we are mown down by you; the blood of Christians is seed.

The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.