The martyrs shook the powers of darkness with the irresistible power of weakness.
The martyr endured tortures to affirm his belief in truth but he never asserted his disbelief in torture.
Ideas grow quickly when watered with the blood of martyrs.
When we read, we fancy we could be martyrs; when we come to act, we cannot bear a provoking word.
History is changed by martyrs who tell the truth.
For me Christ has always symbolized the true type of the Jewish martyr.
I am a Bedouin warrior who brought glory to Libya and will die a martyr.
I'm fighting so I can die a martyr and go to heaven to meet God. Our fight now is against the Americans.
Why does any martyr cooperate with his judases?. . . We see a game beyond the endgame. . . As Seneca warned Nero: No matter how many of us you kill, you will never kill your successor.
While we may not be called to martyr our lives, we must martyr our way of life. We must put our selfish ways to death and march to a different beat. Then the world will see Jesus.
"Gospel preachers nowadays preach the gospel of the Crucifixion, the Apostles preached the gospel of the Resurrection as well. The Crucifixion loses its meaning without the Resurrection. Without the Resurrection the death of Christ was only the heroic death of a noble martyr; with the Resurrection it is the atoning death the Son of God. It shows that death to be of sufficient value to cover our sins, for it was the sacrifice of the Son of God. "
Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, never the correctness of his thought. Things are true or false in themselves.
It is often pleasant to stone a martyr, no matter how much we may admire him.
The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.
You don’t have to be brave or a saint, a martyr, or even very smart to be an atheist. All you have to be able to say is “I don’t know”.
The reign of the tyrant ends with his death, and the reign of the martyr starts with it.
When Jesus Christ shed his blood on the cross, it was not the blood of a martyr; or the blood of one man for another; it was the life of God poured out to redeem the world.
It does matter that it's the Olympics. I just did it my way. I'm not a martyr, and I'm not a do-gooder. I just want to go out and rock. And man, I rocked here.
Virtue has many preachers, but few martyrs.
A martyr is the one who bears witness that the Shari'ah of Allah is more valuable to him than his own life.
