Quotes about Martyrdom
We will not stop resisting the occupation until liberation or martyrdom.
- Muqtada al Sadr
Criminal Minds, Believer: "A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it."
- Oscar Wilde
Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error.
- Thomas Jefferson
Believing in Jesus didn't get the Christians hung or tossed to the lions for sport. Believing in Jesus as the rightful ruler and lord did. There's a difference.
- Tony Evans
The true martyr/witness testifies in word and deed, life and death. This is the cost of apologetics. Cheap apologetics is the defense of Christian truth without martyrdom.
- Kevin Vanhoozer
A man really believes not what he recites in his creed, but only the things he is ready to die for.
- Richard Wurmbrand
Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr, the man who will not act until he knows all will never act at all.
- Jim Elliot
Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.
- John Keats
Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
I feel in me the vocation of the Priest. I have the vocation of the Apostle. Martyrdom was the dream of my youth, and this dream has grown with me. Considering the mystical body of the Church, I desired to see myself in them all.
- St. Therese of Lisieux
You talk of our having an idea; we do not have an idea. The idea has us, and martyrs us, and scourges us, and drives us into the arena to fight and die for it, whether we want to or not.
- Heinrich Heine