MARTYRDOM

Related Subjects: Belief, Christianity, Courage, Endurance, Faith, Fidelity, Glory, Hero, Sacrifice, Saint, Suffering, Trials

1. Men reject their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and honour those whom they have slain.—DOSTOYEVSKY, The Brothers Karamazov
   

2. All have not the gift of martyrdom.—DRYDEN, The Hind and the Panther
   

3. We have not all strength for martyrdom and I fear that if trouble comes I shall act like Peter.—ERASMUS
   

4. The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.—ST. JEROME
   

5. Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.—HUGH LATIMER, At the Stake
   

6. The commandments have made as many good martyrs as the creed.—Proverb
   

7. Like a pale martyr in his shirt of fire.—ALEXANDER SMITH, A Life Drama
   

8. It is computed, that eleven thousand persons have, at several times, suffered death, rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.—SWIFT, Gulliver's Travels