When does loyalty become martyrdom?
Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error.
I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.
We will not stop resisting the occupation until liberation or martyrdom.
Martyrdom is the shortest way of attaining an eternal life.
Martyrdom is the only path to immortality that requires no talent whatsoever.
I've come to believe that God, in His wisdom, allows martyrdom in every generation in part because, without them, the reality of Christ's death for us becomes increasingly blurry. . . As we look at [the martyrs], the mist that sometimes enshrouds first-century Golgotha is burned away, and we see. . . the Lord nailed to the cross.
Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.
Parenthood seems really rewarding. . . like martyrdom, but without the glamour.
Christ-as always, the model-never sat back, crossed his arms, and dismissed the annoying, the troublesome, or the unpromising. He never name-called, never judged, never treated a single person with contempt. Christ talked to everybody, he mingled with everybody, he shared his message with everybody, and he also loved everybody. So don't count the cost with anybody either. We don't waste our time with people who don't want what we have to offer. But if they do, one form of martyrdom is to give a listening ear or an understanding smile to all comers.
For some not to be martyrs is martyrdom indeed.
Love makes the whole difference between an execution and a martyrdom.
I have read somewhere that in a totalitarian system martyrdom does better than thought.
Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
Where there is most feeling, there is the greatest martyrdom.
Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.
The severest prosecutions have never been followed by revelations changing a divine law, obedience to which brought imprisonment or martyrdom. Though I go to prison, God will not change his law of celestial marriage.
What can my enemies do to me? I have in my breast both my Heaven and my Garden. If I travel they are with me, and they never leave me. Imprisonment for me is a religious retreat [khalwa]. To be slain for me is martyrdom [shahada] And to be exiled from my land is a spiritual journey [siyaha].
Churches thrive on martyrdom and persecution.
