90 Quotes About Martyrdom

Oh, yet come back, come back to me, beloved; for I repent me of my choice! Come back, and we will creep away together, to some dark and silent grave where the devouring army shall not find us; and we will lay us down there, locked in one another's arms, and sleep, and sleep, and sleep.

A man may indeed be an honest man; but the folly of sacrifice, of virginity, of devotedness, of martyrdom, arises only from faith in the folly of the Cross.

How like God's love yours has been to me- so wise, so generous, and so unsparing!" exclaimed Pancratius. "Promise me one thing more- that is, that you will stay near to me to the end, and carry my last legacy to my mother.

A heroic, losing battle! I'm tired of brave men who die. There's nothing pretty about losing.

Without love everything can be nothing. Does that make me want to love? No. For me, Ignorance is still better than martyrdom.

There are perhaps many causes worth dying for, but to me, certainly, there are none worth killing for.

But the old man would not so, but slew his son,And half the seed of Europe, one by one.

If we seek spiritual heroism ourselves, the old ego is just back in control under a new name. There would not really be any change at all, but only disguise, just bogus self-improvement on our own terms.

Sometimes in our story we are the victim, sometimes the martyr and sometimes the villain.