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• To love means being 100 percent responsible for your experience of living, to not be a victim or a martyr, and to be 100 percent accountable for the quality of your life, which includes the amount of love, joy, and growth you create in your relationships each day. To love is the ability to remain strong, stable, and committed through difficult times, changes, and challenges. It means being gentle, kind, and supportive of your potential, goals, and aspirations.

  Harold H. Bloomfield

  Love, Strong, Mean

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• The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that whilst the former expresses his idea most fully in death it is the strange feeling of bitterness which comes from failure that the latter really enjoys; the former rejoices in his victory, the latter in his suffering.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Men, Ideas, Differences

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• Dying for an idea,' again, sounds well enough, but why not let the idea die instead of you?

  Wyndham Lewis

  Ideas, Dying, Sound

  1926 The Art of Being Ruled, pt.1, ch.1.

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• When you are in the temple, remember that you are in the living presence of the Lord God, that you stand before His face, before His eyes, in the living presence of the Mother of God, of the holy angels, and of the first-born of the Church - that is, our forefathers, the prophets, Apostles, hierarchs, martyrs, reverend Fathers, the righteous, and all the saints. Always have the remembrance and consciousness of this when you are in the temple, and stand with devotion, taking part willingly and with all your heart in the Divine service.

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Mother, Father

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• If ye keep watch over your hearts, and listen for the Voice of God and learn of Him, in one short hour ye can learn more from Him than ye could learn from Man in a thousand years.

  Johannes Tauler

  Heart, Men, Years

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• When we say that Jesus Christ was produced without sexual union, was crucified and died, and rose again, and ascended to heaven, we propound nothing new or different from what you believe regarding those whom you call the sons of Jupiter.

  Justin Martyr

  Jesus, Believe, Son

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

  Emile M. Cioran

  Power, Suffering, Appetite

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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• Consider the pains which martyrs have endured, and think how even now many people are bearing afflictions beyond all measure greater than yours, and say, "Of a truth my trouble is comfort, my torments are but roses as compared to those whose life is a continual death, without solace, or aid or consolation, borne down with a weight of grief tenfold greater than mine."

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Religious, Pain, Grief

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “Introduction to the Devout Life”, p.164, Catholic Way Publishing

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• I would sooner read five lines of the Bible than hear five masses in the "Church".

  Anne Askew

  Bible, Religion, Church

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• God has given me the bread of adversity and the water of trouble.

  Anne Askew

  God, Adversity, Water

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• Christ was crucified because he would have nothing to do with the crowd (even though he addressed himself to all). He did not want to form a party, an interest group, a mass movement, but wanted to be what he was, the truth, which is related to the single individual. Therefore everyone who will genuinely serve the truth is by that very fact a martyr. To win a crowd is no art; for that only untruth is needed, nonsense, and a little knowledge of human passions. But no witness to the truth dares to get involved with the crowd.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Art, Passion, Winning

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• A pastor friend of mine said, "Our problem is that we no longer have martyrs. We only have celebrities.

  Shane Claiborne

  Problem, Said, Pastor

  Shane Claiborne (2010). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical”, p.21, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The protestant martyrs and their monuments testify to the fact that they died, not on account of ecclesial differences, but because the issue was the way of salvation.

  Alistair Begg

  Differences, Issues, Way

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• The heart is commonly reached, not through the reason, but through the imagination, by means of direct impressions, by the testimony of facts and events, by history, by description. Persons influence us, voices melt us, looks subdue us, deeds inflame us. Many a man will live and die upon a dogma; no man will be a martyr for a conclusion.

  John Henry Newman

  Heart, Mean, Men

  John Henry Newman, Gerard Tracey (1999). “The Letters and Diaries of John Henry Newman: Tract 90 and the Jerusalem Bishopric, January 1841-April 1842”, p.555, Oxford University Press

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• Prison, blood, death, create enthusiasts and martyrs, and bring forth courage and desperate resolution.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Blood, Prison, Desperate

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• Venerate the martyrs, praise, love, proclaim, honor them. But worship the God of the martyrs.

  Saint Augustine

  Honor, Worship, Praise

  St Augustine, Saint Augustine of Hippo (2003). “Sermons 273-305”, p.21

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• You victorious martyrs who endured torments gladly for the sake of God and Savior, you who have boldness of speech toward the Lord Himself, you saints, intercede for us who are timid and sinful men, full of sloth, that the grace of Christ may come upon us, and enlighten the hearts of all of us so that we may love Him.

  Ephrem the Syrian

  Love, Heart, Men

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• The Church is that one wherein the true word of God is preached, which Christ left to His Apostles, which the same Church hath always observed, the doctors preached, and Martyrs and confessors witnessed. This is the Church I believe to be true.

  Margaret Clitherow

  Believe, Doctors, Church

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• We will make the lives of the infidels hell - millions of martyrs marching on Jerusalem.

  Yasser Arafat

  Israel, Marching On, Jerusalem

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• Persecution has come upon us, right honorable brethren, and persecution in the severest form. Shepherds are persecuted that their flocks may be scattered. And the worst of all is that those who are being treated ill cannot accept their sufferings in proof of their testimony, nor can the people reverence the athletes as in the army of martyrs, because the name of Christians is applied to the persecutors. The one charge which is now sure to secure severe punishment is the careful keeping of the traditions of the Fathers.

  Saint Basil

  Christian, Father, Athlete

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• We shall remember Gaddafi our whole lives as a great fighter, a revolutionary and a martyr.

  Hugo Chavez

  Gaddafi, Fighter, Remember

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• The king has been very good to me. He promoted me from a simple maid to be a marchioness. Then he raised me to be a queen. Now he will raise me to be a martyr.

  Anne Boleyn

  Kings, Queens, Simple

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• Beyond the earliest days of the religion, early Christians were believers because they'd been converted, not because they were witnesses to supernatural events, just like today. The 9/11 hijackers believed in Paradise for martyrs, but that doesn't mean that that's true. We have no good reason to imagine that eyewitnesses wrote the gospels rather than someone simply documenting the Jesus story as it had developed within their church community.

  Robert B. Seidensticker

  Christian, Jesus, Mean

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• The symbolic personage who focuses upon himself a social drama and the martyr may well be born during these days preceding the new moon. They are the incorporation of the need of their collectivity for a new birth of spirit. They call down the creative spirit; they summon forth the future-even if it be through their own death

  Dane Rudhyar

  Drama, Moon, Creative

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• Dead anarchists make martyrs, you know, and keep living for centuries. But absent ones can be forgotten.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Anarchist, Forgotten, Century

  Ursula K. LeGuin (2015). “The Dispossessed”, p.151, Hachette UK

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