Martyrs Quotes
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Medievalism, with its saints and martyrs, its love of self-torture, its wild passion for wounding itself, its gashing with knives, and its whipping with rods - Medievalism is real Christianity, and the medieval Christ is the real Christ.
Oscar Wilde -
Take away the contests of the martyrs, and you have taken away their crowns.
Saint Ambrose
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The martyrs shook the powers of darkness with the irresistible power of weakness.
John Milton -
Journalists are martyrs, exploring so that others may exploit.
Brian Christian -
Martyrs are needed to create incidents. Incidents are needed to create revolutions. Revolutions are needed to create progress.
Chester Himes -
It is so little true that martyrs offer any support to the truth of a cause that I am inclined to deny that any martyr has ever had anything to do with the truth at all.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
Tertullian -
I do believe that ideas ripen quickly when nourished by the blood of martyrs.
Mahatma Gandhi
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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