Martyrdom Quotes
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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.
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Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.
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It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest.
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I have read somewhere that in a totalitarian system martyrdom does better than thought.
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The way I see it, there is no greater spiritual beauty than fanaticism, of a sort so sincere it can only end in martyrdom.
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Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
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It took me a long time to realize that football isn't martyrdom, but a game that's enjoyable, and one in which getting better at it is supposed to be fun. Perhaps it would have been better if I had understood this as a young man.
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Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
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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.
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Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.
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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.
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Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.
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Al-Qaida is a cult of martyrdom.
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Martyrdom is the only path to immortality that requires no talent whatsoever.
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Some poets still write about the hair and eyes and body of a beloved and depict scenes of joy when lovers meet to drink and dance and be merry. But that is not the kind of poetry that the Islamic movement, grown on the concept of jihad and martyrdom, wants.
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You open up the way of risk. You go ahead of me along the way of holiness, where happy are they who die of love, where the ultimate response is martyrdom.
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Martyrdoms would rarely lead to conversions because they were themselves relatively rare. The vast majority of pagans—including the millions who eventually converted—never saw a martyrdom, as recent scholarship has shown. As the most prolific and one of the best-traveled authors of the first three Christian centuries, Origen of Alexandria, stated in no uncertain terms: “Only a small number of people, easily counted, have died for the Christian religion.
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There are daily martyrdoms occurring of more or less self-abnegation, and of which the world knows nothing.
