Martyrdom Quotes

• The history of missions is the history of answered prayer. From Pentecost to the Haystack meeting in New England and from the days when Robert Morrison landed in China to the martyrdom of John and Betty Stam, prayer has been the source of power and the secret of spiritual triumph.

  Samuel Marinus Zwemer

  Spiritual, Prayer, Secret

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• 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

  St. Jerome

  Heart, Dying, Doe

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

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Political, Causes, Christianity

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• The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.

  Tertullian

  Blood, Church Today, Christianity

  Speech at Christmas Celebration for Members of Inter-religious Organization by Reverend William Goh, www.catholic.sg. December 29, 2016.

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

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Death, Tyrants, Political

  Soren Kierkegaard (2015). “Papers and Journals”, p.370, Penguin UK

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• Ideas grow quickly when watered with the blood of martyrs.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Blood, Ideas, Martyr

  "The Cambridge Modern History". Book edited by Adolphus William Ward et al., Vol. 10, p. 122, 1907.

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• No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Suffering, Belief, Appetite

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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• Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Power, Suffering, Appetite

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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• 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.

  John Foxe

  Christian, Flower, Heaven

  John Foxe (1830). “The martyrs, or A history of persecution: from the commencement of Christianity to the present time including an account of the trials, tortures, and triumphant deaths of many who have suffered martyrdom”, p.21

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• Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Way, Rebellious

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• No human beings are more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief

  Emile M. Cioran

  Belief, Martyr, Dangerous

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• The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Suicide, Differences, Literature

  Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

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

  Jules Feiffer

  Jesus, Religion, Forgiving

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• Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

  George Eliot

  Inspirational, Sweet, Men

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.258, ShandonPress

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• The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Tongue, Prison, Fame

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.299, Library of America

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

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Military, Preparation

  "My Early Life: 1874-1904".

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• No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

  Oscar Wilde

  Heart, Men, Atheism

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.219, University of Chicago Press

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• The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

  Florence Nightingale

  Selfish, Nursing, Sacrifice

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• Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.

  Bela Lugosi

  Acting, Enthusiasm

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• I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion-- I have shuddered at it, I shudder no more. I could be martyred for my religion. Love is my religion and I could die for that. I could die for you. My Creed is Love and you are its only tenet.

  John Keats

  Love, Romantic, Men

  John Keats (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Keats (Illustrated)”, p.986, Delphi Classics

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• You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

  George Eliot

  Men, Looks, Ostracism

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.420, Booklassic

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• Love is my religion - I could die for it.

  John Keats

  Love, Passion, Romance

  John Keats (1820). “The Complete Works of John Keats”, p.130

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• Sons of Islam everywhere, the jihad is a duty - to establish the rule of Allah on earth and to liberate your countries and yourselves from America's domination and its Zionist allies, it is your battle - either victory or martyrdom.

  Ahmed Yassin

  Country, Son, America

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• Play the man, Mastre Ridley; we shall this day light such a cndle, by God's grace in England, as I trust shall never be put out.

  Hugh Latimer

  Life, Success, Men

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• We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now, by suffering. This is the easier victory.

  T. S. Eliot

  Fighting, Men, Suffering

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.256, Faber & Faber

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