Winston Churchill Quotes

Rather than allow themselves to be separated from the love of Christ, they submitted cheerfully to every privation, to contumely and disgrace, and to death itself.

I wish to be a martyr, and I don't fear death.

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.

I wish to be a martyr ... God willing, I will have this through you.

When principles fail, men have only one way to save them and to preserve their faith, which is to die for them.

I die most willingly. And with God’s grace, I shall give others the good example not to fear death. I do forgive who had a hand ... in my death and my innocent blood. As for my religion, ‘tis glorious for all my friends that I should die for it.

We don't know how God chooses martyrs. We do know that they give us the most precious gift they possess — their very lives.

She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.

Suffering for truth's sake Is fortitude to highest victory, And to the faithful death the gate of life.

We must all have the spirit of martyrdom, though we may not all die martyrs.

If it means my death, I don't care, because even death will be a sort of freedom.

Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.

Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.

I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

A martyr can never cooperate with death, go to death in a way that they're not trying to escape.

Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony.

A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.

We are not interested in our own personal security. On the contrary, each of us lives his days and nights hoping more than anything to be killed for the sake of Allah. The most honorable death is to be killed.

Martyrs win by losing.

Mother of my son, be hopeful and patient. We will meet in heaven. I will die for my nation to live. I will be alive in heaven. Just one push on the trigger and I’m over, Thus disfiguring the face of the enemies. May the faces of those who don’t fear God be disfigured, The faces of those who don’t defend Him.

There has been no persecution I have not tasted, no oppression I have not suffered. I neither care for Paradise nor fear Hell. If I see my nation's belief secured, I will not even care about burning in Hell, for while my body is burning, my heart will be as if in a rose garden.

For all have not the gift of martyrdom.

But manly set the world on sixe and sevene; And, if thou deye a martir, go to hevene.

Some missionaries bound for Africa were laughed at by the boat captain. 'You'll only die over there,' he said. But a missionary replied, 'Captain, we died before we started.'

Lord, I am willing To receive what You give. To lack what You withhold. To relinquish what You take, To suffer what You inflict, To be what you require.