Martyred Quotes - Page 3

• The word suffering is full and whole and perfect as a pierced heart, sweet, rushing and tender ... Suffering is the joy of someone about to be martyred, illumination of something given up as an offer.

  Lydia Millet

  Sweet, Grief, Heart

  Lydia Millet (2005). “Oh Pure and Radiant Heart”, p.206, Soft Skull Press

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• We ourselves were well conversant with war, murder and everything evil, but all of us throughout the whole wide earth have traded in our weapons of war. We have exchanged our swords for plowshares, our spears for farm tools...now we cultivate the fear of God, justice, kindness, faith, and the expectation of the future given us through the Crucified One....The more we are persecuted and martyred, the more do others in ever increasing numbers become believers.

  Justin Martyr

  Kindness, War, Numbers

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• I think that directing is the ultimate martyred task of filmmaking, that it has nobility to it. It takes three years to make a film, for the most part. I think it requires the attentiveness of a mother hen.

  Diane Lane

  Movie, Mother, Thinking

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. October 7, 2010.

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• People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives.

  Jane Rule

  Broken Heart, People, Choices

  Jane Rule (2013). “Lesbian Images: Essays”, p.14, Open Road Media

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