The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
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.
The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.
The living prophet and the apostles today are as lighthouses in the storm. Steer towards the light of the restored gospel and the inspired teachings of those who represent the Lord on earth.
A martyr can never cooperate with death, go to death in a way that they're not trying to escape.
Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.
Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.
Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.