Quotes on Martyred

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

Love is my religion - I could die for it.

The toughness I was learning was not a martyred doggedness, a dumb heroism, but the art of accommodation. I thought: to be tough is to be fragile; to be tender is to be truly fierce.

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.

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

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.

It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.

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

Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

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

Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

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.