#martyrs

I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers. ↗

I could have been 23 next July I gambled on what mattered most, the dice were cast. I lost. ↗

This, he said, touching his chest lightly with his fingertips, 'you must cease to love. We must love with our immortal souls which have no father save God Almighty.' He took my hand again. 'John Boreman has my Bible; I'd like you to have it. Study it well, Jenny, for the truth is there, and the truth shall make you free, so that when the time comes, as it will, as it must, when the old things are done away with, you will be ready. The seed is planted, soon there will be a great harvest. I and those like me will not have died in vain. Walter Rancon Norah Lofts ↗

— Norah Lofts

#norah-lofts #the-house-at-old-vine #love

In all times, and all countries especially in those countries which are divided within by religious faith, there are always fanatics who will be well contented to be regarded as martyrs. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#martyrs #religion #faith

We, who are the living, possess the past. Tomorrow is for our martyrs. ↗

— James L. Farmer, Jr.

#martyrs #our #past #possess #tomorrow

The people who have really made history are the martyrs. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#made #martyrs #people #really #who

Men reject their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and honor those they have slain. The Brothers Karamazov Book VI - The Russian Monk, Chapter 3 - Conversations and Exhortations of Father Zosima. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#martyrs #prophets #religion #religious-institutions #the-brothers-karamazov

The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church. ↗

— Tertullian

#church #martyrs #seed

These martyrs of patriotism gave their lives for an idea. ↗

— Schuyler Colfax

#idea #lives #martyrs #patriotism #their

If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#been #cut #great #haven #heads

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