It is more difficult, and calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.

There are daily martyrdoms occurring of more or less self-abnegation, and of which the world knows nothing.

It is truer to say that martyrs make faith than that faith makes martyrs.

Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination?

It is the cause and not the death that makes the martyr.

It is not the least of a martyr's scourges to be canonized by the persons who burned him.

If a man is in doubt whether it would be better for him to expose himself to martyrdom or not, he should not do it. He must be convinced that he has a delegation from heaven.

To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.

Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes.

Everyone hates a martyr; it's no wonder martyrs were burned at the stake.

Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr's.

The few of understanding, vision rare, Who veiled not from the herd their hearts, but tried, Poor generous fools, to lay their feelings bare, Them have men always burnt and crucified.

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

The martyr endured tortures to affirm his belief in truth but he never asserted his disbelief in torture.

To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.

The tyrant dies and his rule is over; the martyr dies and his rule begins.

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

It is the cause, and not the death, that makes the martyr.

It is often pleasant to stone a martyr, no matter how much we may admire him.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.