The people who have really made history are the martyrs.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Surely martyrs, irrespective of the special phase of the divine idea for which they gladly give up their bodies to torture and to death, are the truest heroes of history.
They're not put on earth to be martyrs; they have to want to come out. It depends on your culture, where you work, where you live. Each person's circumstances are unique.
While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.
It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.
Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.
Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never.
It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.
Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.
We, who are the living, possess the past. Tomorrow is for our martyrs.