Martyr Quotes

• Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

  Indira Gandhi

  Reality, Doe, Ends

  Indira Gandhi, Dhiren Mullick (1972). “Indira Speaks on Genocide War and Bangladesh”, Calcutta : Academic Publishers

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• We love the old saints, missionaries, martyrs, and reformers. Our Luthers, Bunyans, Wesleys and Asburys, etc... We will write their biographies, reverence their memories, frame their epitaphs, and build their monuments. We will do anything except imitate them. We cherish the last drop of their blood, but watch carefully over the first drop of our own.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Memories, Writing, Blood

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• Not all of us are called to die a martyr’s death, but all of us are called to have the same spirit of self-sacrifice and love to the very end as these martyrs had.

  Richard Wurmbrand

  Sacrifice, Self, And Love

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• A martyr is the one who bears witness that the Shari'ah of Allah is more valuable to him than his own life.

  Sayyid Qutb

  Bears, Valuable, Witness

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• We don't know how God chooses martyrs. We do know that they give us the most precious gift they possess - their very lives.

  Cesar Chavez

  Giving, Precious Gifts, Know How

  Cesar Chavez's speech at the Indestructible Spirit Conference at La Paz, UFW Headquarters in Keene, California, January 11, 1991.

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

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Death, Tyrants, Political

  Soren Kierkegaard (2015). “Papers and Journals”, p.370, Penguin UK

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• History is changed by martyrs who tell the truth.

  Miguel Syjuco

  Telling The Truth, Changed

  Miguel Syjuco (2010). “Ilustrado: A Novel”, p.15, Macmillan

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• Martyrs are needed to create incidents. Incidents are needed to create revolutions. Revolutions are needed to create progress.

  Chester Himes

  Progress, Revolution, Incidents

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• The martyrs shook the powers of darkness with the irresistible power of weakness.

  John Milton

  Darkness, Weakness, Irresistible

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• It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Political, Causes, Christianity

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• I do believe that ideas ripen quickly when nourished by the blood of martyrs.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Believe, Blood, Ideas

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.208, Tara Publishing

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• Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Sarcastic, Inspiration

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.257, Courier Corporation

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• It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.

  Saint Augustine

  Punishment, Causes

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

  Tertullian

  Blood, Church Today, Christianity

  Speech at Christmas Celebration for Members of Inter-religious Organization by Reverend William Goh, www.catholic.sg. December 29, 2016.

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• Ideas grow quickly when watered with the blood of martyrs.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Blood, Ideas, Grows

  "The Cambridge Modern History". Book edited by Adolphus William Ward et al., Vol. 10, p. 122, 1907.

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• Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  God, Doe

  "The Tragic Sense of Life" by Miguel de Unamuno, as translated by J. E. Crawford Flitch, 1921.

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• It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Faith, Martyred

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• The path of those who preach love, and not hatred, is not easy. They often have to wear a crown of thorns.

  Nelson Mandela

  Love, Hatred, Crowns

  Twitter post from Feb 23, 2017

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• The whole life of Christ was a continual Passion; others die martyrs but Christ was born a martyr. He found a Golgotha even in Bethlehem, where he was born; for to his tenderness then the straws were almost as sharp as the thorns after, and the manger as uneasy at first as his cross at last. His birth and his death were but one continual act, and his Christmas day and his Good Friday are but the evening and morning of one and the same day. And as even his birth is his death, so every action and passage that manifests Christ to us is his birth, for Epiphany is manifestation.

  John Donne

  Friday, Morning, Passion

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• Eighty and six years have I served Christ, nor has He ever done me any harm. How, then, could I blaspheme my King who saved Me?....I bless Thee for deigning me worthy of this day and this hour that I may be among Thy martyrs and drink the cup of my Lord Jesus Christ.

  Polycarp

  Jesus, Kings, Years

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• Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Courage, Peace, Bravery

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.203, Courier Corporation

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• In our day heaven and earth are on tiptoe waiting for the emerging of the Spirit-led, Spirit-intoxicaed, Spirit-empowered peole. All of creation watches expectantly for the springing up of a disciplined, freely gathered, martyr people who know in this likfe the life and power of the Kindgom of God. It happened before, it can happen again.

  Richard J. Foster

  People, Waiting, Heaven

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• Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Hero, Littles, Admiration

  "The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard". Book by Elbert Hubbard, 1927.

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  The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Strength, Wisdom, Veterans Day

  Letter to William Stephens Smith, 13 Nov. 1787

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• A martyr's disciples suffer more than the martyr.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Suffering, Disciple

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.188, Cambridge University Press

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