Martyr Quotes - Page 5

• The best of men are only men at their very best. Patriarchs, prophets, and apostles, - martyrs, fathers, reformers, puritans, - all are sinners, who need a Savior: holy, useful, honorable in their place - but sinners after all.

  J. C. Ryle

  Father, Men, Needs

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• It's so graceless, being a martyr. It's honoring your adversaries too much.

  Ayn Rand

  Too Much, Adversaries

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.341, Penguin

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• I am no martyr upon cross, but I would gladly give my life so that those more deserving may live.

  Gannicus

  Giving, May, Crosses

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• There are more martyrs to nonsense than truth, truth preferring missionaries.

  Robert Breault

  Truth, Nonsense

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• As Elisabeth Elliot points out, not even dying a martyr’s death is classified as extraordinary obedience when you are following a Savior who died on a cross. Suddenly a martyr’s death seems like normal obedience.

  David Platt

  Faith, Death, God

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• In the blood of the martyrs to intolerance are the seeds of unbelief

  Walter Lippmann

  Blood, Belief, Intolerance

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.182, Harvard University Press

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• Russian people, like their Chinese comrades, are well aware of what is going on. And there are tens of millions of their martyrs who are reminding them what is to be expected from the West.

  Andre Vltchek

  People, Chinese, West

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Nothing says romance like hobos, martyrs and decapitations.

  Craig Ferguson

  Romance, Hobos

  "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson", 2005-2014.

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• The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Law, Justice, Criminals

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.403

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• The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.

  Benjamin Cardozo

  Eye, Eternity, Prophet

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• I will gladly go to jail in the name of free speech. I have no problem with what I said. Make me a martyr.

  Joey Barton

  Football, Stupid, Names

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• Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Suffering, Vices

  Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of Chesterfield.), Charles Caleb Colton (1861). “Lord Chesterfield's advice to his son on men and manners. To which are added, selections from Colton's 'Lacon'.”, p.246

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• For me, Christ has always symbolized the true type of the Jewish martyr.

  Marc Chagall

  Christ, Type

  "From Rebel to Rabbi: Reclaiming Jesus and the Making of Modern Jewish Culture" by Matthew B. Hoffman; Stanford University Press, (p. 218), 2007.

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

  Nazr Mohammed

  Education, Fear, Military

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• Beyond all the other reasons not to do it, free speech assaults always backfire: they transform bigots into martyrs.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Speech, Reason, Assault

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• The world would use us just as it did the martyrs, if we loved God as they did.

  Thomas F. Wilson

  Christian, Prayer, Religion

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• Poetry is a religion without hope, but its martyrs guarantee the eternal truth of its dogma.

  Jean Cocteau

  Guarantees, Dogma, Without Hope

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• The woman from the depths of her rags, a waif, a martyr — smiled. She must have a divine heart to be so tired and yet smile.

  Henri Barbusse

  Tired, Heart, Depth

  Henri Barbusse (2005). “The Inferno”, p.152, 1st World Publishing

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• A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.

  Honore de Balzac

  Doe, Great Writers, Dies

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• It fills me with joy to realize that I can lay down my life daily for God, that I can sacrifice it willingly for Him. I may not be a martyr for the faith, but I can be a martyr of charity.

  Rose Philippine Duchesne

  Sacrifice, Joy, Charity

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• I'm not afraid to be one of the martyrs people have offered in the struggle for their just demands.

  Mir-Hossein Mousavi

  Struggle, People, Demand

  "Iran opposition leader Mousavi 'ready to die' for reform" by Robert Tait, www.theguardian.com. January 1, 2010.

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• It is not the least of a martyr's scourges to be canonized by the persons who burned him.

  Murray Kempton

  Burned, Persons, Scourge

  Murray Kempton (2012). “Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties”, p.46, New York Review of Books

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• If the heart bleeds love, bare it,
  If the martyr's crown fits, wear it.

  Roger McGough

  Love, Heart, Crowns

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• The ego is often deeply involved in the desire to help others. If you do not want your ego to be involved in this way, do not be available for others unless you really want to be available. Do not feel that you should be available. Don't sacrifice yourself in any way. Don't go against your true feelings. Don't carry the cross for anyone else. Make sure that there's no sense that helping others makes you a better person or that it will gain you easy access into Heaven. Don't be a martyr.

  Leonard Jacobson

  Sacrifice, Helping Others, Heaven

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• If it will be an intolerable thing to suffer the heat of fire for a year or a day, or an hour, what will it be to suffer ten thousand times more for ever? What if thou wert to suffer Lawrence 's death, to be roasted upon a gridiron; or to be scraped or pricked to death as other martyrs were; or if thou wert to feed upon toads for a year together? If thou couldst not endure such things as these, how wilt thou endure the eternal flames ?

  Richard Baxter

  Years, Fire, Flames

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