Martyrdom Quotes - Page 4

• Christ-as always, the model-never sat back, crossed his arms, and dismissed the annoying, the troublesome, or the unpromising. He never name-called, never judged, never treated a single person with contempt. Christ talked to everybody, he mingled with everybody, he shared his message with everybody, and he also loved everybody. So don't count the cost with anybody either. We don't waste our time with people who don't want what we have to offer. But if they do, one form of martyrdom is to give a listening ear or an understanding smile to all comers.

  Heather King

  Listening Ear, Names, People

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• When does loyalty become martyrdom?

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Loyalty, Doe

  Robert Charles Wilson (2014). “The Chronoliths”, p.240, Macmillan

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• I am too sick to work and haven't money enough to last 2 months and pay income tax. I want to keep going but do not see quite how, and there is no alternative - rather than justify my mother's 25-year dread of my "coming back on her, sick," I must kill myself. If she has to pay funeral costs, at least she will cut them to the bone and I will not be here to endure her martyrdom and prolong it by living.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Mother, Cutting, Years

  Rose Wilder Lane's diary entry, December 9, 1933.

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• One book that has influenced the writer very strongly is Winwood Reade's Martyrdom of Man...It is still an extraordinarily inspiring presentation of human history as one consistent process.

  William Winwood Reade

  Book, Men, Process

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• Happy are those who have departed through martyrdom. Unhappy am I that I still survive... Taking this decision is more deadly than drinking from a poisoned chalice. I submitted myself to Allah's will and took this drink for His satisfaction.

  Ruhollah Khomeini

  Drinking, Decision, Departed

  Ruhollah Khomeini's announcement of ceasefire with Iraq (July 20, 1988), as quoted in Efraim Karsh "The Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988", April 25, 2002.

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• Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is to die for the common good.

  Pope Francis

  Dedication, Noble, Common

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• A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.

  Barbara Mertz

  Common, Youth, Young

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• Pain is superficial, and therefore fear is. The torments of martyrdoms are probably most keenly felt by the by-standers.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fear, Pain, Superficial

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.212, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

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• You can't sustain [anger].  You become bitter.  Nothing's going to change.  Anger leads to resentment, then to spiking your orange juice, then to martyrdom.

  Sherman Alexie

  Orange Juice, Resentment, Bitter

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• Even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot Where the dogs go on with their doggy life

  W. H. Auden

  Running, Dog, Goes On

  "Musee des Beaux Arts" l. 10 (1940)

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• Martyrdom is the only path to immortality that requires no talent whatsoever.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Path, Talent, Immortality

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• San Bernardino involved two killers were actually radicalized before they started courting or dating each other online, and online as late as - as early as the end of 2013, they were talking to each other about jihad and martyrdom before they became engaged and then married and lived together in the United States.

  Keith Ellison

  Two, Talking, Dating

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Parenthood seems really rewarding... like martyrdom, but without the glamour.

  Dov Davidoff

  Parenthood, Glamour, Seems

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• The terrorists provide an outlet where with just one action, a raped woman can go from being a source of dishonour to her family to being a source of pride in a culture of martyrdom.

  Mia Bloom

  Pride, Culture, Action

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• God sends such purgations to you, directors of consciences, that you may acquire the science of the saints and the art of directing souls. You will suffer also in another way. Love will be your executioner. Let it do its work; it knows how. In this martyrdom we have need of extraordinary grace and strength; but God will bestow it. Without this divine help it would be impossible to bear up.

  Paul of the Cross

  Art, Soul, Grace

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• Our relationship with Israel is another reason we're being attacked. But an American politician - whether Muslim or not - who criticizes Israel as a martyrdom operation in American politics cannot survive as an official or as a politician.

  Michael Scheuer

  Israel, Politician, Reason

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, never the correctness of his thought. Things are true or false in themselves.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  True Or False, Sincerity, Martyr

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.774, Library of Alexandria

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• Many of Islam's apologists insist that suicide bombing is not Islamic because the Koran forbids suicide. Mmm-hmm. So where are all the Muslims gathering in mass demonstrations to vehemently condemn this practice that slanders their religion? Why does contemporary Islam promote 'martyrdom' as the highest duty of Muslims? Why are photographs of suicide bombers plastered everywhere in Beirut? Because Islam is what Islam does.

  Jamie Glazov

  Suicide, Islamic, Practice

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• That so many writers have been prepared to accept a kind of martyrdom is the best tribute that flesh can pay to the living spirit of man as expressed in his literature. One cannot doubt that the martyrdom will continue to be gladly embraced. To some of us, the wresting of beauty out of language is the only thing in the world that matters.

  Anthony Burgess

  Men, Doubt, Literature

  "English Literature: A Survey for Students". Book by Anthony Burgess, 1958.

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• God honors some with great suffering and grants them the grace of martyrdom, while other are not tempted beyond their strength. But in every case it is one cross.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Grace, Honor, Suffering

  "Discipleship". Book by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, p. 87, 1937.

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• They say martyrdom is the highest rank a believer can achieve! Do not believe in this! The highest rank is the life itself, it is the existence itself! There is no rank in death, but only nothingness! Rank exists only in life! Stick to the life, stay away from death! Neither kill nor die!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Believe, Sticks

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• The older I got, the more apparent it became that my mother was losing control over me. She fought back fiercely with black moods, silent treatments and martyrdom. And, of course, all she did was run my ass out of the house even quicker. The pressure was unbearable.

  George Carlin

  Mother, Running, Losing Control

  Source: reprints.longform.org

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• Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Pain, Thinking, Hell

  Jonathan Edwards (1829). “The Works of President Edwards: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.69

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• Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art, For there thy habitation is the heart-- The heart which love of thee alone can bind; And when thy sons to fetters are consign'd-- To fetters and damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom.

  Lord Byron

  Country, Art, Son

  Lord Byron (2013). “Selected Poems of Lord Byron”, p.63, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The truth that we must finally confront is that Islam contains specific notions of martyrdom and jihad that fully explain the character of Muslim violence.

  Sam Harris

  Character, Islam, Violence

  "Sam Harris on the Reality of Islam". www.truthdig.com. February 08, 2006.

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